Arizona Wildcats basketball
It really wasn't that close.
Arizona State started the game throwing down 3-pointers and built a 14-1 lead before the Wildcats stormed back and led at the half, 40-36. It was all Arizona in the second half and with six minutes remaining the Wildcats had turned the 13-point deficit into a 26-point lead, 84-58, when Azuolas Tubelis, who scored a game-high 19 points and had 11 rebounds, slammed home an emphatic dunk.
The Wildcats coasted the rest away and finally cleared the bench in the final moments of the game. ASU kept tossing in the 3-pointers down the stretch, finishing the night 13 of 30 from long range.
Aside from ASU's three-point barrage, it was all Arizona as Oumar Ballo came off the bench and played 21 minutes, finishing with 13 points and 10 rebounds, while Pelle Larsson was all over the court with 14 points on 5-of-5 shooting in his 20 minutes of playing time. Bennedict Mathurin finished with 18 points, Dalen Terry added 12 and Christian Koloko, in foul trouble early, played 22 minutes, tossing in 10 points and hauling in seven rebounds.
Arizona pounded the ball inside all night and outscored the Sun Devils in the paint, 52-28. The Sun Devils, after upsetting UCLA in triple-OT just 48 hours earlier, fall to 7-14 overall and 3-8 in the Pac-12.
Arizona improves to 20-2 and leads the Pac-12 Conference with a 10-1 record. The Wildcats head for the State of Washington later this week. First up: The Cougars on Thursday in Pullman, Washington.
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