- AP
- Jan 05, 2024
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) Jose Perez scored a season-high 27 points, Frankie Collins added 14 of his 19 points in the second half and Arizona State beat Utah 82-70 Thursday night for its third win in a row.
Arizona State (9-5, 3-0 Pac-12) lost three games in a row – by an average of 14.6 points – to end its nonconference slate.
Perez hit a 3-pointer to give Arizona State the lead for good with 51 seconds left in the first half and then stole the ball, led the fast break and lobbed a pass to Jamiya Neal for an alley-oop layup 21 seconds later that made it 41-36 at halftime.
Keba Keita threw down a dunk and Deivon Smith converted a three-point play to cap a 7-2 spurt that trimmed Utah’s deficit to 48-47 with 13:46 to play but Collins answered 15 seconds later with a 3-pointer, the first of his nine consecutive ASU points as the Sun Devils scored 13 of the next 19. Collins hit a 3 and Perez added another less than a minute to make it 67-56 with 5:28 to play and Utah trailed by double figures the rest of the way.
Branden Carlson scored 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Utah (11-3, 2-1), which had won eight games in a row since suffering back-to-back losses against No. 3 Houston and St. John’s at the Charleston Classic in mid-November. Smith finished with 13 points.
Arizona State plays host to Colorado, and Utah visits No. 10 Arizona, on Saturday
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12T Utah 11-3363470 Arizona State 9-5414182 |
Desert Financial Arena Tempe, AZ
| TOP SCORERS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | B. Carlson C | 19PTS | 8REB | 1AST | |
| 12 | J. Perez G | 26PTS | 4REB | 3AST | |
| STARTERS | PTS | REB | AST | PF | MIN |
| B. Carlson | 19 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 30 |
| C. Bajema | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
| R. Worster | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 32 |
| L. Lovering | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 |
| G. Madsen | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 29 |
| BENCH | PTS | REB | AST | PF | MIN |
| D. Smith | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 27 |
| K. Keita | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| B. Carlson | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
| H. Erickson | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| J. Teat | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| L. Tarlac | – | – | – | – | – |
| W. Exacte | – | – | – | – | – |
| A. Bamisile | – | – | – | – | – |
| J. Huang | – | – | – | – | – |
| J. Wahlin | – | – | – | – | – |
| B. Haddock | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 70 | 37 | 14 | 17 | 200 |
| STARTERS | PTS | REB | AST | PF | MIN |
| J. Perez | 26 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 33 |
| F. Collins | 19 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 35 |
| A. Miller | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 33 |
| J. Neal | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 33 |
| A. Gaffney | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 27 |
| BENCH | PTS | REB | AST | PF | MIN |
| S. Phillips Jr. | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| B. Selebangue | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| K. Lands | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| B. Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| B. Hurley | – | – | – | – | – |
| J. Williams | – | – | – | – | – |
| A. Watson | – | – | – | – | – |
| M. Davis | – | – | – | – | – |
| A. Mayock | – | – | – | – | – |
| Z. Markus | – | – | – | – | – |
| Z. Meeks | – | – | – | – | – |
| B. Long | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 82 | 32 | 18 | 11 | 200 |