Seniors play last game at home

Seniors Janae Fulcher and Micaela Pickens will play their final Arizona State home game today against USC, a team the Sun Devils also could face in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament.

ASU (13-16, 5-12 Pac-12) will finish between seventh and ninth in the conference depending on today’s results although it cannot win a tiebreaker with Washington State for the No. 7 seed in the tournament, Thursday to March 10 in Seattle.

USC (9-19, 6-11) split with Washington State (10-18, 6-11) so if those teams and ASU wind up tied then the Sun Devils would open against the Cougars based on tiebreakers.

Otherwise ASU and USC could play for a third time next week with the winner advancing to face the No. 1 seed, either No. 4 Stanford or No. 6 California. ASU update: USC leads the series 52-18, although ASU has had more success in recent years including a seven-game win streak. The Trojans won both games last season and the Sun Devils took the first meeting this season. Janae Fulcher and Promise Amukamara each had nine points in the January comeback with Haley Videckis adding seven points and six boards. USC update: Junior F Cassie Harberts (23 points/11 rebounds) and Senior F Christina Marinacci (16/18) had double-doubles Friday in the Trojans’ 74-62 win at Arizona, ending an eight-game losing streak. Marinacci had her career rebounding high while Harberts had her 15th career double-double and ninth this season. Harberts had 24 points/14 boards vs. ASU in the first game when Marinacci didn’t play.

The Sun Devils need to win at least three consecutive games to reach .500 and be eligible for the WNIT.

Otherwise their 13-year streak of postseason appearances will end.

Fulcher, a fifth-year forward, leads ASU in scoring with an 11point average and scored a teamhigh 11 Friday in a 58-50 loss to No. 17 UCLA.

She shoots 50.6 from the floor, among the Pac-12 leaders. Pickens, a two-year starter after transferring from Cypress College, averages 6.5 points and is shooting 33.8 percent from 3-point.

ASU rallied from a 16-point halftime deficit to win 60-53 at USC on Jan. 25 even though no Sun Devils scored in double figures.

That win — coach Charli Turner Thorne’s 300th at ASU — and two over Arizona are the Sun Devils only victories in their last 13 games.