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No. 25 Arizona State basketball falls flat in blowout loss vs. San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Khalil Shabazz scored 26 factors and fast-starting San Francisco routed No. 25 Arizona State 97-60 on Wednesday evening to finish the Solar Devils’ nine-game successful streak.
Arizona State (11-2) was off to its greatest begin since 2017-18 and entered the AP High 25 ballot on Monday for the primary time since Dec. 7, 2020.
The Dons (10-4) raced to a 24-2 lead, had a 27-point benefit on the half and a 47-point lead with about six minutes left. They shot 57% from the ground, hitting 15 3-pointers.
Shabazz made 8 of 16 pictures and 5 of 11 from lengthy vary. Isaiah Hawthorne added 19 factors, Tyrell Roberts had 14 factors and Marcus Williams and 11.
DJ Horne and Duke Brennan scored 12 factors apiece for Arizona State.
Roberts, Josh Kunen and Zane Meeks sparked the sport’s opening surge with a 3-pointer apiece earlier than Frankie Collins’ layup ended the Solar Devils’ drought. It was about seven minutes later earlier than the Solar Devils hit one other area purpose on Horne’s layup that made it 28-7.
Hawthorne scored 10 factors and Shabazz had 9 because the Dons constructed a 50-23 halftime lead on 18-of-35 taking pictures general and 9 of 18 from lengthy vary.
Desmond Cambridge Jr. — averaging 11.5 factors and 1.7 steals — sat out for Arizona State due to a non-COVID sickness.
DEFENSE HAS ROUGH NIGHT
Arizona State entered as top-of-the-line defensive groups within the nation, ranked fifth within the nation holding opponents to only 35.1% taking pictures from the sphere, together with six video games preserving groups from scoring greater than 60 factors. The Dons hit 60 factors on the 16:34 mark on a Shabazz 3-pointer.
CONSECUTIVE WINS OVER ASU
USF defeated Arizona State, 66-65, in a wire-to-wire thriller in Tempe final December. USF’s final house win over ASU was a 102-90 victory on December 30, 1977. The Dons evened the collection 6-6.
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