Basheer Jihad had 20 factors and Joson Sanon added 19 to steer Arizona State to an 85-82 victory over New Mexico in an Acrisure Invitational semifinal sport Thursday evening in Palm Desert, Calif.
Arizona State (6-1) will play Saint Mary’s within the championship sport Friday. New Mexico (5-2) faces Southern California within the comfort sport.
Jihad and BJ Freeman made 3-pointers on consecutive possessions to present Arizona State an 80-75 lead with 1:25 left.
New Mexico’s Mustapha Amzil adopted with two free throws with 1:00 left. Alston Mason answered with two free throws for Arizona State to place the Solar Devils forward 82-77 with 23 seconds left.
Donovan Dent, who led New Mexico with 30 factors and 7 assists, then drove to the basket and transformed with 15 seconds remaining.
After Jihad made one among two free-throw makes an attempt, Amzil made a 3-pointer to chop the result in 83-82 with 4 seconds left.
Mason, who scored 11 factors, was fouled a second later and made each free throws.
Amzil missed a 3-pointer on the buzzer. He completed with 28 factors and eight rebounds.
Freeman had 16 factors with a 7-of-8 efficiency on the free-throw line.
The sport included 47 fouls referred to as, leading to 64 free-throw makes an attempt. Arizona State made 24 of 32 pictures from the free-throw line and New Mexico sank 28 of 32.
New Mexico closed the primary half on a 16-1 run to take a 37-34 lead at halftime.
Amzil had 17 factors within the first half on 5-of-9 capturing from the sphere, 2-of-4 from 3-point vary. He made all 5 of his free-throw makes an attempt.
The Lobos prolonged the run to 21-1 firstly of the second half with a 3-pointer by CJ Noland and a dunk by Tru Washington. New Mexico led 42-34 with 18:10 left following Washington’s dunk.
The Lobos took a 60-51 lead with 10:04 remaining after Amzil made 4 free throws following technical fouls separated by solely seven seconds on Arizona State middle Shawn Phillips Jr. and coach Bobby Hurley.
Arizona State scored the subsequent seven factors, 5 by Jihad, to chop the result in 60-58 with 9:04 left.
After that time, neither staff led by greater than 4 factors as that they had seven ties and 5 lead modifications earlier than Freeman’s 3-pointer with 1:25 left.
–Area Stage Media