TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Evan Gordon scored 23 points, Ruslan Pateev had 12 points and eight rebounds, and Arizona State held on to beat California 66-62 Thursday night.
Arizona State (18-5, 7-3 Pac-12) went up 16 points after a 17-3 run in the first half and kept the lead around double digits until the Bears (13-9, 5-5) tightened up defensively in the closing minutes.
Justin Cobbs hit a 3-pointer to cut Arizona State's lead to three and followed Gordon's two free throws with another to pull the Bears within 64-62 with 22 seconds left.
Gordon hit 1 of 2 from the line at the other end to give Cal a chance, but the Sun Devils forced Allen Crabbe into a turnover with 9 seconds left. Jonathan Gilling sealed it by hitting 1 of 2 free throws after that.
Crabbe and Tyrone Wallace had 16 points apiece to lead the Bears.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| California (13-9) | 27 | 35 | 62 |
| Arizona State (18-5) « | 37 | 29 | 66 |
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| California Golden Bears | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Kravish, F | 35 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| R. Solomon, F | 29 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| A. Crabbe, G | 40 | 6-14 | 2-4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 16 |
| J. Cobbs, G | 32 | 4-9 | 3-4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| T. Wallace, G | 31 | 7-11 | 1-2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 16 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| B. Smith | 14 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| R. Thurman | 13 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| J. Powers | 5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| B. Bak | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 24-51 | 8-14 | 30 | 13 | 17 | 62 | |
| 47.1% | 57.1% | ||||||
| Arizona State Sun Devils | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Gilling, F | 38 | 3-11 | 1-2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| C. Felix, F | 37 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| J. Bachynski, C | 13 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| E. Gordon, G | 38 | 8-13 | 4-5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 23 |
| J. Carson, G | 33 | 4-10 | 4-5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| R. Pateev | 26 | 6-9 | 0-2 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| C. Colvin | 10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. Barnes | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| E. Jacobsen | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-54 | 11-16 | 32 | 11 | 11 | 66 | |
| 46.3% | 68.8% | ||||||
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