With just over 13 minutes left in their game Friday night at Moby Arena, the Colorado State men’s basketball team had a 12-point lead over Utah State and an opportunity to avenge a 42-point loss the first time the teams played.
CSU led the Aggies 47-35 following a 3-pointer by Josh Pascarelli and had been able to weather a turnover bug that plagued them in the first half only to allow Utah State to overcome the deficit and eventually win the game, 65-61.
More CSU turnovers, 11 in the second half, led to the Utah State rally. The Rams turned the ball over a season-high 21 times in the game.
With the loss, the Rams dropped to 12-8 overall and 3-6 in the Mountain West Conference.
“It’s the turnovers,” CSU head coach Ali Farokhmanesh said. “That’s what bit us in the foot. For basically 30 minutes and 23 seconds, you’re dominating the game because you’re up double digits most of the time. But when you give that many pick-sixes to that team specifically, they convert them better than anybody in the country.”
CSU led 35-25 at halftime and extended it to 40-27 less than a minute into the second half after a 3-pointer by Kyle Jorgensen. The Aggies cut the Rams’ lead to single digits before Pascarelli’s 3-pointer made it a double-digit lead again at 47-35.
Utah State then slowly whittled the Rams’ advantage down to one point at 51-50 with 9:15 remaining. Two minutes later, the Aggies took their first lead of the game since they led 2-0 in the opening minutes at 53-51. CSU was able to tie the game at 53 but never regained the lead.
With 1:48 left, CSU trailed 63-61 after a 3-pointer by Jase Butler, but Utah State made a pair of free throws with three seconds remaining to seal the victory despite it being much closer than the 100-58 victory by the Aggies when the teams met in Logan on Dec. 20.
Jorgensen led the Rams with 24 points. However, after scoring 19 in the first half and CSU’s first five points of the second half, he was held scoreless for the final 18 minutes of the game. He had a career-high five 3-pointers in his second start since returning from an injury.
That injury occurred early in the first meeting between the Rams and Aggies and Jorgensen came out with a vengeance in the rematch, making all six of his first-half field goal attempts, including all four 3-pointers he took.
“Obviously, they embarrassed us,” Jorgensen said of the first meeting between the teams. “It was embarrassing. Nobody wants to feel like that, how we felt after that game. I think we did a great job of bringing the fight early and not shying away from the physicality they have and really, really sticking it to them. We had them on the ropes the whole game.”
CSU built a 10-point first-half lead by shooting 68% from the field in the first 20 minutes compared to 39% for Utah State. In the second half, those numbers were reversed as the Aggies shot 61% to the Rams’ 38%.
In addition to Jorgensen’s 24 points, Pascarelli had 13 and Rashaan Mbemba added 10. CSU only got six points from its bench, and the Aggies turned the Rams’ 21 turnovers into 24 points. CSU outrebounded Utah State 30-22.
CSU will be back in action Wednesday night at San Diego State.
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