Editor's Note: The fifth in a series of articles previewing women's basketball teams in the Pac-12 Conference.

Arizona State’s top three returning scorers are all seniors.

The Sun Devils also added senior Ja’Tavia Tabley, a graduate transfer who started 26 games last season for USC's women's basketball team.

“Great senior class, nothing they haven’t seen,” said Charli Turner Thorne, who is in her 23rd year as coach of the Sun Devils. “They have played against the top competition in the country their entire career.”

ASU reached the Sweet 16 last year during a sixth straight trip to the NCAA Tournament where the Sun Devils lost to Mississippi State in the Portland Regional.

Guard Robbi Ryan averaged 7.2 points per game last season while Reili Richardson averaged 5.1 points with a team-high 5.0 assist per game. Those are the two returning starters for Turner-Thorne, who used the same starting five in every game while finishing 22-11, including a 10-7 mark in Pac-12 play.

Seniors Jamie Ruden and Kiara Russell averaged 4.6 and 3.5 points per game, respectively. The 6-foot-3 Tapley averaged 6.0 points and 5.0 rebounds last season for the Trojans.

“We’ve gotten along really well thus far and our culture is in her all ready,” Ryan said. “She needs a little bit of time adjusting and it’s been great getting to know her off the court too. She absorbs everything and she embraces it.”

Tapley gives the Sun Devils a presence on defense.

“I think we are going to be able to take more away,” Turner-Thorne said. “We play in the best conference in the country hands down, not even close. We’re playing against some of the best offensive players in the country so I think we are going to be in a position to guard them a little harder, shut down some people a little more consistently.”