National Basketball Association
Lehigh 84, Arizona St. 81
When: 9:00 PM ET, Saturday, December 20, 2014
Where: Wells-Fargo Arena, Tempe, Arizona
Officials:
# Rod Dixon, # Mike Scyphers, # Kurt Walker
Attendance:
4615
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Lehigh 84, Arizona State 81 (3 OT): Justin Goldsborough
scored 10 points – including five in the third overtime – and grabbed a
career-high 13 rebounds as the Mountain Hawks outlasted the Sun Devils.
After
rallying from behind in each of the first two extra periods, Lehigh
took the lead for good on a jumper by freshman Kahron Ross midway
through the third overtime and Goldsborough made it 81-78 with a bucket
on the Mountain Hawks' next possession. Shaquielle McKissic rallied Arizona State
within one with 30 seconds left, but Goldsborough and Brandon Alston
each split a pair of free throws before the Sun Devils' Jonathan Gilling
misfired on a potential game-tying 3-pointer in the waning seconds.
Ross recorded 15 points, a season-high 14 assists and three steals while Tim
Kempton collected 16 points and 11 rebounds while committing a career-high nine turnovers
before fouling out early in the second overtime for Lehigh (5-5). Savon
Goodman went 9-for-11 from the field to finish with 24 points and 12
rebounds off the bench for Arizona State (6-5), which had its 14-game
home winning streak snapped.
Kempton’s three-point play with
12:20 left in regulation staked Lehigh to its largest lead of the
contest at 50-36 before Gilling drilled a pair of 3-pointers and scored
eight of his 11 points over a 1:17 stretch during an 11-0 surge that got
the Sun Devils back into it. Chance Murray tied it for the first time
since late in the first half with two minutes remaining and
Goodman’s layup with 55 seconds remaining sent the game into overtime as neither
team could score on its final possession of regulation.
Goodman
hit two free throws to put Arizona State ahead 68-64 halfway through the
first extra session, but Austin Price knotted it with 1:01 to go and
Murray could not convert the potential game-winner with two seconds to
play. Ross extended the game another five minutes on a contested long
jumper with eight seconds left in the second overtime.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Arizona
State’s home winning streak was the school’s longest since a 20-game
run in 1974-75. … Both teams set a season high in steals with 12. …
Lehigh, which entered Saturday ranked eighth in the country in
free-throw shooting at 76.8 percent, went 13-for-23 from the line.
Top Game Performances
| Lehigh |
|
Arizona St. |
|
Austin Price 18 |
Scoring |
Savon Goodman 24 |
|
Kahron Ross 14 |
Assists |
Shaquielle McKissic 4 |
|
Justin Goldsborough 13 |
Rebounds |
Savon Goodman 12 |
|
Justin Goldsborough 4 |
Free Throws Made |
Savon Goodman 6 |
|
Austin Price 5 |
Steals |
Bo Barnes 4 |
|
Justin Goldsborough 2 |
Blocks |
Savon Goodman 1 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Lehigh
|
84 |
44.3 |
9-21 |
13-23 |
20 |
43 |
2 |
12 |
22 |
| Arizona St.
|
81 |
42.9 |
6-20 |
15-29 |
15 |
42 |
2 |
12 |
19 |
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