Jacobsen's heroics lead Arizona State past UCSB 70-68
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) Eric Jacobsen put in a missed shot with two seconds left, giving Arizona State a 70-68 win over UC-Santa Barbara on Sunday.
Jacobsen's bucket came after a big play on the defensive end, a blocked shot with 11 seconds left to give ASU the ball. He finished with 10 points and eight rebounds.
Savon Goodman's 14 points led ASU (4-2), which trailed by five with 1:28 to play. But Andre Spight hit a 3 and the Sun Devils scored the last seven points of the game.
Michael Bryson scored 23 points to lead the Gauchos (2-3). Sam Beeler and Gabe Vincent added 12 points each.
Beeler caught a pass from John Green for a Gauchos layup with 1:28 left, giving UCSB a 68-63 lead. But UCSB's last shot as the buzzer sounded from half court was long.
The Sun Devils failed to hit a shot for almost the first seven minutes of the game and trailed by as many as nine points in the first half. But a UCSB scoring drought with three turnovers in more than three minutes helped Arizona State get back into the game.
ASU took a 17-16 lead on a Goodman layup with 7:24 left in the half. The two teams exchanged the lead for the next few minutes until the Gauchos' Sam Beeler dunked with five seconds to go for a 29-27 halftime lead.
The Gauchos committed 11 turnovers in the first half, which also aided the poor-shooting Sun Devils in keeping the score close.
UCSB went ahead 44-38 with a brief 7-0 run early in the second half. A 3-pointer by Vincent punctuated the run with 13:03 to play.
The Sun Devils cut the lead to 52-50, but UCSB got a key 3-pointer from T.J. Taylor, his only shot of the game, to go up 55-50 with 8:06 left.
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TIP-INS
UC SANTA BARBARA: The Gauchos are 0-3 against Pac-12 opponents this season, with losses to Cal, Oregon State before Sunday. They have one more game against a Pac-12 team, Washington, remaining on their nonconference schedule. . Coach Bob Williams, in his 18th season, is the longest-tenured head coach in school history and west of the Mississippi River, one season longer than Gonzaga's Mark Few and San Diego State's Steve Fisher.
ARIZONA STATE: The Sun Devils are 8-2 all-time against the Gauchos. . Head coach Bobby Hurley was given a technical foul for arguing with an official with 13:31 to play in the second half. ... Fans were allowed to toss new or hardly used stuffed animals onto the court at halftime for charity.
BRYSON ON FIRE
Bryson has 82 points in his last four games and passed Nick Jones for 23rd place in all-time scoring in UCSB history.
UP NEXT
UC-Santa Barbara hosts USC on Dec. 3.
Arizona State at Creighton on Dec. 2.
