TUCSON, Ariz. – In a game in which the final score belied the closeness of the game, the Sun Devil women's basketball team came up short at Arizona, 63-52 on Sunday.
Trayanna Crisp (15 points, five rebounds) led the Sun Devils (10-12, 2-8 Pac-12), who were looking to win back-to-back road games in league play for the first time since January of 2020. Jalyn Brown scored 12 points while Isadora Sousa (nine points, team-high seven rebounds) and Journey Thompson (eight points) both came one basket short of scoring in double figures. Kadidia Toure also came off the bench to score four points and grab six rebounds.
One week after achieving its highest shooting percentage since 2018 and setting a school record for 3-point shooting percentage with a minimum of 10 attempts (8-10/80.0) in a win over Cal, ASU shot 36 percent from the floor and 28 percent from beyond the arc on Sunday. It was also unable to capitalize on its opportunities from the free throw line where it made just 37 percent of its attempts (7-19).
Trailing 36-25 two minutes into the third quarter, the Sun Devils outscored the Wildcats 16-5 to level the score at 41-41 with 2:14 remaining. ASU knocked down 54.5 percent of its field goal attempts in the quarter. If there was a negative it was the Sun Devils could have gone to the final quarter with a lead instead of trailing by four after the Wildcats scored the last four points of the third frame. ASU left as many as eight points on the floor after making just 27 percent of its free throws (3-11) in the quarter.
Any hope the Sun Devils had of squaring this year's edition of the Territorial Cup Series was extinguished less than four minutes into the final period as the Wildcats added on to the four-point spurt at the end of the third quarter by scoring the first nine points of the final one to extend out to a 54-41 lead. The Wildcats were never threatened after what ended up being an 18-2 run that put ASU into a 59-43 hole with under four minutes remaining.
Neither team led by more than three points the first six minutes of the game. Arizona was the first team to lead by more than three points but ASU got back within a single point after Sousa's triple. Arizona went on to take a 14-13 lead into the second quarter.
The Wildcats took the first significant lead of the game after scoring the first seven points of the second quarter to go up 21-13. Brown cut the lead to three with five straight points. The Sun Devils eventually got within one after a jumper by Crisp made the count 23-22 with 2:40 remaining. The Wildcats closed with an 8-2 run over the last 2:08 to take a 31-24 lead into the locker room.
The Sun Devils close a stretch of seven of nine games on the road next week when they travel to Los Angeles to face USC (Friday at 8 p.m. MST) and UCLA (Sunday at 1 p.m. MST).
Trayanna Crisp (15 points, five rebounds) led the Sun Devils (10-12, 2-8 Pac-12), who were looking to win back-to-back road games in league play for the first time since January of 2020. Jalyn Brown scored 12 points while Isadora Sousa (nine points, team-high seven rebounds) and Journey Thompson (eight points) both came one basket short of scoring in double figures. Kadidia Toure also came off the bench to score four points and grab six rebounds.
One week after achieving its highest shooting percentage since 2018 and setting a school record for 3-point shooting percentage with a minimum of 10 attempts (8-10/80.0) in a win over Cal, ASU shot 36 percent from the floor and 28 percent from beyond the arc on Sunday. It was also unable to capitalize on its opportunities from the free throw line where it made just 37 percent of its attempts (7-19).
Trailing 36-25 two minutes into the third quarter, the Sun Devils outscored the Wildcats 16-5 to level the score at 41-41 with 2:14 remaining. ASU knocked down 54.5 percent of its field goal attempts in the quarter. If there was a negative it was the Sun Devils could have gone to the final quarter with a lead instead of trailing by four after the Wildcats scored the last four points of the third frame. ASU left as many as eight points on the floor after making just 27 percent of its free throws (3-11) in the quarter.
Any hope the Sun Devils had of squaring this year's edition of the Territorial Cup Series was extinguished less than four minutes into the final period as the Wildcats added on to the four-point spurt at the end of the third quarter by scoring the first nine points of the final one to extend out to a 54-41 lead. The Wildcats were never threatened after what ended up being an 18-2 run that put ASU into a 59-43 hole with under four minutes remaining.
Neither team led by more than three points the first six minutes of the game. Arizona was the first team to lead by more than three points but ASU got back within a single point after Sousa's triple. Arizona went on to take a 14-13 lead into the second quarter.
The Wildcats took the first significant lead of the game after scoring the first seven points of the second quarter to go up 21-13. Brown cut the lead to three with five straight points. The Sun Devils eventually got within one after a jumper by Crisp made the count 23-22 with 2:40 remaining. The Wildcats closed with an 8-2 run over the last 2:08 to take a 31-24 lead into the locker room.
The Sun Devils close a stretch of seven of nine games on the road next week when they travel to Los Angeles to face USC (Friday at 8 p.m. MST) and UCLA (Sunday at 1 p.m. MST).