PROVO, Utah — After eight games on the road BYU returns home for a Big 12 three-game series with No. 23 ranked ASU, April 16-18 at Miller Park. The Sun Devils are 9-6 in Big 12 play, just one game ahead of the Cougars in the conference race.
BROADCAST PLANS. All three games of the ASU-BYU series will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and on the BYU Radio app, BYUradio.org, SiriusXM 143 and 107.9 FM in Utah County. Game one of the series on Thursday is scheduled for 1 p.m. MT, with game two Friday at 6 p.m. and the final game on Saturday at 1 p.m.
COUGAR RECAP. BYU is coming off its first-ever Big 12 sweep, winning three-straight at Houston (3-2, 6-2, 6-1), April 9-11. The Cougars followed up the weekend success at Houston by shutting out Lamar 4-0 on Monday night in Beaumont, Texas.
Although the offense scored 19 runs in the four games in Texas, the story for BYU on the road trip was pitching. The Cougars used 11 different pitchers to combine for a team ERA of 1.25, surrendering just five runs and holding opposing hitters to a .185 average.
Offensively, BYU was led by Easton Jones, who hit .444 with 8 hits, 5 RBI, 2 runs and 4 doubles. Collectively the BYU offense hit .275 in the series with 3 home runs, 13 doubles, 17 RBI, 61 total bases and a .430 slugging percentage.
PREVIEWING THE MATCHUP. BYU is 19-16 on the year and 8-7 in conference play, good for a tie for fifth with TCU and Baylor in the Big 12 standings at the midway point of conference season. The Cougars are 7-3 over the last 10 games and enter the weekend series on a five-game winning streak, the longest of the year.
Meanwhile ASU enters the series at 26-12 and 9-6 in Big 12 games, good for solo fourth place. The Sun Devils are 6-4 in their last 10 games and arrive in Provo on a one-game losing streak. ASU is 7-3 in road games this season.
SERIES HISTORY. BYU and Arizona State meet for the 64th time on Thursday. While the Sun Devils lead the all-time series 49-14, the Cougars have won seven of the last 10 contests, including a 2-0 upset in the last meeting in the first round of the 2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship at Globe Life Field.
FLASHBACK TO THE WAC. The Cougars and Sun Devils met 27 times as members of the Western Athletic Conference from the 1967 to 1978 baseball seasons. With BYU in the WAC North Division and ASU the South, the two teams met 21 times in the WAC Tournament. Thirty-two meetings have come since the Cougars and Sun Devils were last conference foes, including a postseason matchup in the 1983 NCAA Tournament.
BYU-ASU TIES. BYU head coach Trent Pratt played his freshman and sophomore seasons at Arizona State (1999-2000). As a freshman, Pratt started 30 games, hitting .307 with 28 runs scored and 24 RBI. Pratt finished his collegiate career at Auburn (2001-02) prior to playing four seasons in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Pratt was teammates at ASU in 1999 with Mitch Jones, father of current BYU third baseman Easton Jones and infielder Cooper Jones. The senior Jones played one season with the Sun Devils before being selected by the New York Yankees in the seventh round of the 2000 MLB Draft.