TEMPE — Arizona State men’s basketball brushed off a sloppy start but was unable to withstand a late Oregon State run in a 78-75 loss on Sunday.
ASU held a double-digit lead with eight minutes left, but a scoring drought for 4:31 allowed the Beavers to claw back in it and end the game on a 21-7 run.
Moe Odum had two big free throws after a timeout to bring ASU’s lead back to three with 2:47 left, and it stayed a one-possession game the rest of the way.
Oregon State guard Isaiah Sy hit the go-ahead 3 with 1:11 left after the Beavers had been trailing the entire second half. The team’s offensive rebound on the ensuing possession put ASU in a deep hole, hoping for the right kind of break.
Massamba Diop recovered a loose ball with 12 seconds left giving the Sun Devils a chance to respond, but he had it ripped away.
Free throws then gave the Beavers (7-6) a three-point lead with 6.9 seconds left, and Odum lost the handle on his final possession.
ASU (9-4) is now 2-4 when it doesn’t reach the 80-point mark and 7-0 when it does.
How did Arizona State pull ahead after slow start?
Santiago Trouet keyed a 10-2 run to start the second half with ASU’s first made 3 of the game and a block on 7-foot-2 center Noah Amenhauser, a Goodyear native who also traveled early in the second half, boosted the ASU run.
The Sun Devils had missed all eight of their 3-point attempts in the first half.
They were very sloppy to start, shooting 3-for-13 over the first nine minutes with Diop making both of his early shots to account for two of the makes.
As a result, Oregon State built an early double-digit lead with their own 7-for-9 start.
ASU benefitted from an Oregon State assistant getting called for a technical foul, but it didn’t result in much of a momentum swing as the Beavers scored on their ensuing possession and ASU turned it over its next time down.
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The Sun Devils’ chaotic defense and propensity to get to the free-throw line (they entered the matchup top 40 in the nation in attempts per game) showed up later as ASU finished on a 20-11 run to take a two-point lead.
ASU shot 16 free throws in the first half to Oregon State’s five (16-8 advantage for the Beavers in the second).
Shooting guard Bryce Ford returned to the starting lineup after missing the previous two contests with a lower-body injury. The rust was visibly there as he shot 1-for-5 from 3 with many of the misses falling short.
He entered the contest shooting 43.9% on 4.1 deep attempts per game, the best percentage among Sun Devils with at least 10 attempts.
Trevor Best was also active and played two minutes after exiting the last game at UCLA with a lower-body injury.
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