ASU men edge Oregon State 75-73,
It should be no surprise the Arizona State and Oregon State basketball teams went down to the wire in their most recent meeting. They always do.
This time it was the Sun Devils prevailing 75-73 in Pac-12 play Sunday night at Desert Financial Arena. It was a bit of redemption from the game earlier this season in Corvallis in which the Beavers prevailed 80-79 on a dunk at the buzzer.
The last eight games between the teams have been decided by a total of 22 points with six of those decided by three points or less.
The Sun Devils (7-9, 4-7) led by as many as 15 points in the first half and took a 10-point lead at the intermission at 41-31.
The Beavers (10-10, 6-8), who trailed from the opening tip, came roaring back and evened the score for the first time at 66 with 2:08 to go. It was tense the rest of the way.
ASU led 73-71 after the Beaver's Ethan Thompson made the first of two free throws. He missed the second and OSU scrambled for the loose ball. ASU's Jaelen House tied up the ball handler and ASU got the ball on the alternate possession with 13 seconds left.
Holland Woods then connected on two free throws with 6.2 seconds left for a 75-71 lead that held up.
As has been the case the entire season, the Sun Devils were shorthanded as starters Marcus Bagley (ankle) and Josh Christopher (back) and reserves Pavlo Dziuba (COVID) and Taeshon Cherry (personal) were all unavailable.
Junior forward Chris Osten (ankle)
was a game-time decision. He played 15 minutes.
ASU has not had a full roster for any game this season. The Sun Devils have had nine players miss multiple games, with players who have started missing a combined 25 games. Sunday's game marked the fourth game in which four scholarship players have been unavailable.
Only Woods has played in every game. His presence in the starting lineup made it eight different starting fives coach Bobby Hurley has used this season.
Standout performer
Remy Martin led Arizona State with 23 points but 12 of those came from the free-throw line.
No. 1 South Carolina 66, LSU 59: Destanni Henderson scored 19 points and Aliyah Boston added 12 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks as host South Carolina (17-2, 12-0) beat LSU (8-10, 6-6) on Sunday for its 31st straight SEC victory.
The Gamecocks haven’t lost in league play since falling to Arkansas in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals in March 2019.
Boston finished with her 10th double-double this season and 23rd of her career as South Carolina won its 12th straight over LSU. Zia Cooke added 13 points for the Gamecocks.
Jailin Cherry had a career-high 19 points to lead LSU. Faustine Aifuwa had 11 points and 12 rebounds, her ninth double-double this season for the Tigers.
No. 6 Texas A&M 80, No. 16 Tennessee 70: Destiny Pitts had a season-high 18 points and host Texas A&M (19-1, 10-1 SEC) used strong free throw shooting late to hold on for a win over Tennessee (12-5, 6-3). It’s the seventh straight victory for Texas A&M and improves the Aggies to 8-0 against ranked opponents this season.
Texas A&M had a two-point led late in the fourth quarter when Pitts was fouled on a 3-pointer and made all three free throws to make it 73-68. Jordan Nixon added two free throws after an offensive foul by Rennia Davis before a basket by Davis cut the lead to 5 with less than a minute to go.
Nixon made two more free throws after the Lady Volunteers fouled her with 37 seconds remaining.
No. 7 Baylor 60, Texas 35: Moon Ursin and Queen Egbo had double-doubles for host Baylor as the Big 12-leading Lady Bears (16-2, 11-1) beat Texas while holding the Longhorns (14-6, 8-5) second-fewest points ever in a game.
NaLyssa Smith had 14 points for the Lady Bears, including the first basket of the game that put them ahead for good, when off opening tip she leaped to get a lob pass from DiDi Richards and competed the layup before coming out of the air. Richards had 10 assists.
Ursin and Egbo both had 11 points and 12 rebounds. DiJonia Carrington had 13 points, her fifth consecutive double-figure game off the bench, and seven rebounds before fouling out for the Lady Bears.
No. 9 Maryland 95, Nebraska 73: Ashley Owusu scored 25 points, Diamond Miller added 24 and Maryland
(14-2, 10-1 Big Ten) made Brenda Frese the all-time winningest coach in program history with a win at Nebraska (910, 7-8).
Frese, 500-130 in her 19th season with the Terrapins, passed Hall of Fame coach Chris Weller, who won 499 games from 1975-2002.
A 12-0 early in the first period put the Terrapins up 14-4 and by halftime it was 51-33 as Chloe Bibby scored all 16 of her points.
No. 10 Arizona 75, Washington 53: Sam Thomas scored 20 points, including hitting a career-high six 3-pointers, and Aari McDonald also had 20 points to help host Arizona (14-2, 12-2) run its winning streak to six games with a Pac-12 victory over Washington (5-11, 2-11).
Cate Reese had 12 points, Shaina Pellington had 11 points and Thomas added a season-high seven rebounds for the Wildcats, off to their best league start in program history.
Arizona shot 55.1% from the field, 63.6 in the first half, and made nine of their first 10 3-pointers. They finished 12-of-16 from three-point range.
No. 15 Indiana 58. Illinois 50: Ali Patberg scored 16 points and Indiana (13-4, 11-2 Big Ten) overcame a horrible shooting day to turn back host Illinois (313, 1-12).
The struggles of leading scorer Mackenzie Holmes (18.7 points a game) emphazied the Hoosiers’ struggles. The 62% shooter – which is among the top five in the nation – was 1-of-16 shooting and put up seven points.
Indiana was 2 of 12 from 3-point range (17%), 18 of 57 overall (32%) and 20 of 30
from the foul line. It was the overall worst shooting game of the season and the first time the 72% free throw shooting team missed 10 from the line.
No. 23 South Dakota State 72, Oral Roberts 60: Myah Selland scored a career-high 30 points and South Dakota State (17-2, 10-0 Summit Conference) scored the last 10 points of the game to hold off host Oral Roberts (16-2, 4-6) for the Jackrabbits’ 14th-straight win.
Compared with Saturday’s 82-60 win over the Golden Eagles, the Jackrabbits had to work much harder but made all the plays down the stretch.
Oral Roberts pulled within 63-61 on a Tierney Coleman basket with 3:06 to go. Paiton Burckhard answered with a layup and then Oral Roberts missed its last five shots and had three turnovers. Tylee Irwin made two free throws, Selland made a basket at 1:06 to surpass her previous career high by one and Burckhard closed it out with a half-minute to go.
No. 24 Georgia 82, Missouri 64: Gabby Connally scored 29 points, sinking six 3-pointers, Jenna Staiti scored 12 of her 18 points after halftime and No. 24 Georgia broke away from Missouri 82-64 Sunday afternoon.
Breaking out of a 35-35 halftime tie, Georgia (16-4, 8-4 Southeastern Conference) shot 47% in the second half, with Connally making five of the Bulldogs six 3-pointers.
Ladazhia Williams led Missouri (7-9, 3-8) with 17 points with Haley Troup and Hayley Frank adding 14 each. Troup was 2 for 2 from distance, Frank was 3 for 3 from behind the arc.