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Arizona State might have reached the point of no return after another bad loss


The worst part wasn’t the loss.

Well, that’s not true. It was a terrible loss, and we’ll get to that. But the more concerning part was how it all unfolded.

For one of the few times all season, Arizona State on Saturday played decent offensive basketball. The Sun Devils moved the ball at Oregon State, dishing a season-high 22 assists. They shot 50 percent from the field for just the second time and committed a season-low four turnovers. They even had a shooter, freshman Marcus Bagley, get hot in the second half, hitting clutch shots, each one growing in importance.

And yet, Arizona State still fell 80-79 to the Beavers, a lower-level Pac-12 team coming off a 34-point loss to Arizona just 48 hours earlier.

“We got to figure out a way to close these games out,” coach Bobby Hurley said. “That’s what we did last year; we closed a lot of the close games out, and things just haven’t been going our way this…





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