Answer: We really haven't had a problem scheduling overall per se. In fact, the scheduling has gone much better than I ever thought it would. I think this win at Arizona State is just going to distance our chance of playing any of the other in-state schools. That's their whole fear, is just that very thing — that they would happen to get beat by us. And as long as we have Dick Hunsaker as our coach, any time we show up we have a chance to win. Our thinking is we would rather play anybody in-state home and away. We'd even do a two-for-one, two at their place and one at ours. But we're not going to go just to BYU every year like some schools. The in-state schools don't really want to play us; they for sure don't want to pay us to play them, and that's usually what happens when you go somewhere to play a single game. Like Arizona State, they paid us a lot of money to go there. Well, in-state schools won't pay us anything, so I'm better off to go to Arizona State or go to Nebraska or go somewhere else and have them pay me some money that's going to help balance my budget and get beat than to go to one of the in-state schools and get beat and not have any money out of it and have it impact us in a negative way with our recruiting and in-state credibility.

The week that was

MEN'S BASKETBALL: Traveled down to Tempe and defeated Arizona State on Saturday, 75-71. The Wolverines were down five points with three and a half minutes to play but used a timely 10-0 run to turn the table on the Sun Devils. UVSC was red-hot from the field, shooting 66 percent for the game while holding Arizona State to a 46 percent mark.

"This is a special moment," Wolverine coach Dick Hunsaker said. "They stayed with it and competed for 40 minutes. This is just a wonderful time, for a second-year program to knock off a Pac-10 team. . . . It's just a wonderful moment in time."

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: The Wolverines dropped both of their games last week to extend their losing streak to four games and fall to 2-6 on the year. On Thursday, Idaho shot 54 percent from 3-point range en route to trouncing UVSC 99-70. Saturday, the Wolverines lost 74-51 on the road to Utah State. Center Robyn Fairbanks had a career-high 23 points in the loss to Idaho, and Miriam Palkki led UVSC with 12 points against the Aggies.

Wolverine of the week

BEN DEVOE, SENIOR CENTER, MEN'S BASKETBALL: The 6-foot-10 Devoe keyed UVSC's stunning 75-71 victory over Arizona State on Saturday with 21 points on 10-of-13 shooting as well as four rebounds, a blocked shot and an assist.

"This is hard to describe," Devoe said. "We worked hard. We want to win and we expect to win and when you do you just can't describe it. This is what sports is all about."

On tap

MEN'S BASKETBALL: at Boise State, 2 p.m. Saturday; at Cleveland State, 5 p.m. Tuesday.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: at BYU, 3 p.m. Saturday; at Southern Utah, 6:05 p.m. Tuesday.

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