Exhibition Game #2 (vs Baylor)
Arizona State vs Baylor
In the final matchup on our exhibition schedule this season
we travel to Waco, TX to take on the Baylor Bears. Baylor is under the leadership of a new coach
this year so they will likely be in a bit of a rebuilding stage as they move
forward (we have them on the regular season non-conference schedule already for
next season and will likely be a staple in that part of our schedule for many
years to come).
This game turned out to be
much closer than the UNLV game which was quite a surprise to me. UNLV
was a team coming off a tournament trip and had an established human coach
whereas Baylor had a new team just being built up by BK.
Unlike that first exhibition game, we didn’t lead from the
opening tip until the final buzzer as Baylor took their first lead just over 5
minutes into the game (7-6) and proceeded to build on that lead taking a 14-9
lead at one point. Luckily Watkins, Brown, and Kuiper answered back and restored
the lead for ASU (17-16). The first half continued to go back and forth as one
team would crawl to a 3 or 4 point lead just ot see it disappear and end up
trailing by 3 or 4. When the buzzer sounded for the end of the first half ASU
found themselves up 36-32 (thanks to a Kenneth Brown 3 with 2 seconds left in
the half).
The early part of the 2nd half was much more like
that UNLV game as we were able to hold onto our lead for the first 12:30 of the
2nd half, and were up 66-62 with 7:30 remaining in the game however
Baylor scored 5 straight to take their first lead of the 2nd half by
a score of 67-66. Their little run was answered by a bigger one of our own and
by the time the dust settled ASU had finished the game on a 17-7 run and won by
a final score of 84-73.
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