CHRIS CODUTO/Arizona Daily Wildcat Freshman Donnisha Sanford defends an opponent under the hoop in McKale Center earlier this season. Tomorrow Sanford and the Wildcats will try and avenge their Jan. 23 loss at Arizona State.

The revenge tour for the women's basketball team kicks off this Saturday when it faces in-state rival Arizona State at 1 p.m. at McKale center.

Of the Wildcats' three remaining games, two are against teams that beat Arizona (17-7, 10-5) during the first half of the Pacific 10 Conference season.

ASU topped Arizona 73-58 when the two teams last met in Tempe almost a month ago. The Sun Devils (14-10, 6-9) used a 21-6 run to open the game and cruised to a win over the then 19th-ranked Wildcats.

Game Info: Who: No. 25 UA vs. ASU When: Tomorrow, 1 p.m. Where: McKale Center

"They were much more aggressive than we were (last game)," said head coach Joan Bonvicini. "We weren't intense enough and we ended up playing catch-up the entire game."

Senior guard Julie Brase said she would like nothing more than to beat the Sun Devils in her career finale against ASU.

"That was a hard game to lose, so we'll be ready for them when they come on our home floor," said senior guard Julie Brase.

ASU has won five of the last six meetings between the two schools, but are just 13-16 all-time in McKale center. In fact, the Sun Devils are just 1-7 this season on the road in Pac-10 games.

Two different streaks will be extended this weekend, if the Wildcats have their way.

Arizona is on a 10-game winning streak at home, while the Sun Devils will try to avoid losing a third straight game. ASU was swept at USC and at UCLA last weekend and has not lost three games in a row since ending the 1999-2000 season on a three-game skid.

Sophomore guard Carrie Buckner has been doing all she can to pull the Sun Devils out of their recent funk. Buckner is averaging 13 points over ASU's last three games, including a career-high 16 point performance last Sunday against the Bruins.

The Sun Devils also have a trio of freshmen they look to for production. Guard Jill Noe leads the group of talented newcomers,

scoring 13.2 points per game, while forward Amy Denson is second on the team with 10.6 points per contest and leads the team with 6.3 rebounds per game.

Rounding out ASU's impressive freshman class is forward Kristen Kovesdy. Kovesdy is tied for the team lead in rebounding with 6.3 per game and is contributing over 10 points a contest. The most impressive stat of all about these three players making such a large impact on the Sun Devil's team is they are doing so right out of high school. Last season at this time, all three players were competing for their respective high schools.

"They are all good players," said Bonvicini, "They play 10 or 11 players a game and their depth is really an advantage to them."

The Wildcats will counter with an equally impressive freshman. Center Shawntinice Polk continues to lead the team in both scoring (17.5) and rebounding (11.0). She is also making a strong case to win this season's Pac-10 Freshman of the Year award and possibly Pac-10 Player of the Year. Polk leads the conference in rebounds per game and is second in both scoring and blocked shots per contest.

UA closes out the regular season with a long three-game home stand. Following the ASU game on Saturday, Arizona will take on No. 6 Stanford Feb. 27 and California on March 1.