Sophie Brunner isn't currently listed in Pac-12 women's basketball statistics due to a technicality, but her absence is symbolic of how Arizona State's junior forward flies under the radar.

Brunner steadily and mostly quietly continues to lead ASU, now 63-19 since she arrived out Freeport, Ill., in fall 2013. She leads the No. 14 Sun Devils in scoring (11.4 ppg) and rebounds (6.4 rpg), playing bigger than her 6-foot-1 frame, particularly when it comes to the boards.

"She's a beast down there, undersized, working her tail off, throwing her body all over the place and grabbing rebounds she has no business grabbing," coach Charli Turner Thorne said after ASU's win over No. 9 Stanford on Monday.

With Brunner and Kelsey Moos both out for four games, the Sun Devils (11-3) lost their only game to an unranked opponent. Moos, also a junior forward, returned Dec. 12 and Brunner a week later, helping ASU to put together an eight-game win streak including a 2-0 Pac-12 start. Brunner missed six games total and has not played in the necessary 75 percent of ASU's games to make the Pac-12 stats list.

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"Obviously, my main job is to rebound so I take that to heart," Brunner said. "My mind-set is no one else is going to get this rebound unless it's my teammate. My biggest motivation is to make my teammates feel like they can feel comfortable shooting when they're open and knowing there's going to be people down there rebounding."

Brunner has large hands -- one of her nicknames is Paws -- allowing her to sometimes wrestle rebounds down with one arm, a habit that her coach prefers to break.

"We coach two hands," Turner Thorne said. "But some of those balls, she probably couldn't get her second hand on them and she is still able to pull it in some way. She's unique that way.

"We want her to use her lower body to fend off and try to grab with two hands. But it's hard. She gives up a lot of pounds and a lot of inches sometime. She actually uses two legs and sometimes an arm to hold people off and that leaves one arm."

ASU outrebounded Stanford 41-32 with Brunner grabbing 10 boards as part of her double-double. She had 16 points and seven rebounds against No. 21 Cal two days earlier. In those games, she was fighting for rebounds against Stanford's 6-3 Erica McCall and 6-3 Kailee Johnson and Cal's 6-3 Courtney Range and 6-4 Kristine Anigwe.

"It's a challenge when you're guarding someone 6-4," Brunner said. "You've got to hit them first, get them lower. Sometimes if they go over your back and it doesn't get called, there's not much you can do. But just try to keep them off their feet and outwork them."

Brunner made All-Pac-12 as a sophomore and was a reserve on the U.S. Pan American Games team during the summer so she is receiving some recognition although not what would be expected for the top player on a borderline top-10 team. But attention isn't what Brunner seeks. She's content to play her role on a winning team even when she only gets three shots like in a Dec. 28 game against Cal State Northridge when Turner Thorne made a point afterward of saying Brunner needed more touches.

Brunner becomes a bit more demanding of the ball when the score demands but always goes to the rebound category first to measure her performance.

"Our ability to not step down and do less on the glass is really what can separate us in games when other teams get tired," Brunner said. "We like to take advantage of that when teams are tired, crash the boards even harder and run them harder. Once you start running teams, they're going to be more worried about you running and not crash as hard so that makes it easier on the defensive end."

No. 14 Arizona State at Washington

When: 8 p.m. Friday

Where: Alaska Airlines Arena, Seattle

Radio: KDUS-AM (1060)

ASU: The Sun Devils allowed just 40 points per game in their last two games, including holding Stanford to a school-record-low 31. They are No. 14 nationally (No. 1 Pac-12) in scoring defense (52.3 ppg). ASU is No. 19 in NCAA ratings percentage index, moving up three after its win over Stanford (No. 3 RPI). UCLA is No. 13, USC No. 15 and Oregon State No. 25. ASU is at Washington State on Sunday. 

Washington: The Huskies (11-3, 2-1) lost 88-83 at Utah on Monday, ending a five-game win streak. G Kelsey Plum leads the nation in scoring (27.9 ppg) on a team averaging 79.8 points and was on the U.S. Pan American Games team with ASU's Sophie Brunner. Forwards Talia Walton (17.6 ppg/8.0 rpg) and Chantel Osahor (11.1/9.8) are the other top players for third-year coach Mike Neighbors.