Arizona State Downs West Virginia 65-57 Tuesday Evening – West Virginia College Athletics

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Arizona State used a balanced scoring effort to knock off 23^rd-ranked West Virginia 65-57 Tuesday evening on the WVU Coliseum.
 
Freshman ahead Jayden Quaintance led the Solar Devils with 15 factors and 12 rebounds to assist them snap their four-game Massive 12 shedding streak.
 
Basheer Jihad added 15, BJ Freeman tallied 14 and Adam Miller contributed 10 for Arizona State, now 11-7 general and 2-5 in Massive 12 play.
 
“They’ve a number of guys that may come at you and put you in some powerful spots,” West Virginia coach Darian DeVries stated. “Our protection has been actually good, and when our offense was struggling, we had alternatives to crawl again into the sport with our protection and actually for the primary time all 12 months we weren’t capable of get stops on the occasions we wanted to.”
 
West Virginia, coming off a 64-57 victory over Iowa State final Saturday, had a depressing time taking pictures the basketball tonight in opposition to the larger Solar Devils. 
 
WVU linked on simply 18 of its 58 area objective makes an attempt for 31% and went practically eight minutes earlier than making its first basket of the second half.  All six West Virginia factors previous to that have been Javon Small free throws earlier than Eduardo Andre’s layup with 12:52 remaining.
 
ASU led by as many as 13 factors and by no means trailed after intermission.
 
ASU scored 36 of its 65 factors within the paint and completely dominated the glass. The Solar Devils outrebounded the Mountaineers 46 to twenty-eight and at one level halfway via the second half, WVU’s solely two boards have been credited as staff rebounds.
 
Fourteen of ASU’s rebounds got here on the offensive glass.
 
West Virginia, in a troublesome portion of its schedule enjoying its fifth recreation in 9 days, together with a two-game western swing to Colorado and Houston, actually struggled from behind the 3-point arc tonight.
 
The Mountaineers (13-5, 4-3) linked on simply 4 of their 28 threes with main scorer Small lacking all eight of his makes an attempt.
 
“They did a pleasant job on him,” DeVries stated. “They saved the ball in entrance of them and after we had possessions, there weren’t sufficient of them the place we received good motion to have the ability to get some (good scoring) alternatives.”
 
Small received 10 of his team-high 14 factors from the free throw line. Freshman Jonathan Powell was the one different Mountaineer to succeed in double figures with 12.
 
Practically half (28) of the staff’s 57 factors got here off Arizona State’s 15 turnovers. In any other case, it was battle for WVU to attain.
 
“On the finish of the day, we settled an excessive amount of. We did not get sufficient motion on the bottom to create confusion and that is the outcome we ended up with,” DeVries famous.
 
“There have been occasions when their size close to the rim did trouble us,” he stated. “It did not possibly lead to plenty of blocked pictures, however I believed their presence was there.”
 
West Virginia’s gamers lastly get a time without work tomorrow, which can be useful to protect Sencire Harris, who has been battling via an sickness.
 
“He wasn’t capable of observe the final couple of days, however he gave us all he had when he was on the market tonight,” DeVries stated. 
 
West Virginia is again on the highway to play at Kansas State on Saturday evening. The sport will tip off at 6 p.m. and can be televised nationally on CBS Sports activities Community.