Arizona State Sun Devils vs Kansas Jayhawks Match Player Stats On Dec 10, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Dec 10, 2017

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Senior guard Tra Holder scored a game-high 29 points Sunday and sparked a 15-0 second-half run that No. 16 Arizona State used to topple No. 2 Kansas 95-85 in Allen Fieldhouse.

Holder, who came in averaging 20.3 points and had a 40-point effort earlier this season against Xavier, was not the only guard to help the Sun Devils remain undefeated.

Senior Shannon Evans added 22 points and freshman Remy Martin chipped in 21. Arizona State scored at least 90 points for the seventh time.

Kansas (7-2) had won 37 consecutive games at home coming off a loss, but could not bounce back from an upset defeat four days earlier against another Pac-12 opponent, Washington.

The 9-0 start is the best for the Sun Devils since 1974-75, when they posted that same record.

Arizona State used five straight makes to launch an 18-2 run, which included the string of 15 consecutive second-half points. That spree, which included four turnovers against the Jayhawks and three on guard Svi Mykhailiuk, gave the Sun Devils a 65-52 advantage with 10:35 remaining.

Kansas crawled as close as six, 78-72, with 5:20 remaining after Mykhailiuk hit the second of two straight 3-pointers.

Yet the Sun Devils were able to answer, particularly from 3-point range, where they went 14-for-28, including five makes by Evans.

Junior guard Lagerald Vick paced Kansas with 25 points, while senior guard Devonte' Graham added 19 points and eight assists. The Jayhawks had five scorers in double figures but committed 16 turnovers, leading to a 25-9 scoring advantage for the Sun Devils off turnovers.

The Jayhawks went on a 15-2 tear to begin the game, going 6 of 7 over that stretch while hitting their first five shots.

Graham led the early barrage and scored 11 first-half points while distributing five assists. Vick led Kansas with 14 points.

Holder had 15 at the break for the Sun Devils. A 3-pointer by Holder with 55 seconds remaining ignited an 8-3 closing run by Arizona State.

NOTES: Two transfers who attended the opposing schools were not yet eligible to play against their former teams Sunday. Kansas sophomore G Sam Cunliffe, an Arizona State transfer, had to sit out the first semester and will become eligible in time for the Jayhawks' next game on Dec. 16 at Nebraska. Arizona State junior F Carlton Bragg, a Kansas transfer, must sit the entire season before becoming eligible for the Sun Devils. ... Each team came into the game with five scorers averaging in double figures. ... The game against No. 2 Kansas marked the third straight season Arizona State faced a nonconference opponent ranked in the top 10. Prior to that, the Sun Devils played just two top-10 nonconference opponents from 1995-96 through 2014-15.