Anthony Dell’Orso’s 22 points off the bench leads No. 4 Arizona to win vs. No. 23 BYU
Anthony Dell’Orso scored 22 points off the bench as No. 4 Arizona bounced back from its first two losses of the season to beat No. 23 BYU on Wednesday.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Anthony Dell’Orso scored a season-high 22 points after coming off the bench, Ivan Kharchenkov added 18 and No. 4 Arizona bounced back from its first two losses of the season by beating No. 23 BYU 75-68 on Wednesday night.
Arizona (24-2, 11-2 Big 12) started the season with 23 consecutive wins, spending nine straight weeks as the nation’s No. 1 team before losing back-to-back games to No. 9 Kansas and No. 16 Texas Tech.
Dell’Orso — a 6-foot-6 Australian — helped the Wildcats get back in the win column after shooting 8 of 15 from the field, including 4 of 8 on 3-pointers.
BYU (19-7, 7-6) was led by freshman star AJ Dybantsa, who finished with 35 points on 13-of-28 shooting. The 6-foot-9 forward topped 30 points for the sixth time this season.
The Cougars were playing their first game without starting guard Richie Saunders, who tore his ACL in a 90-86 overtime victory against Colorado on Saturday. He’s out for the rest of the season.
Arizona never trailed in the second half and slowly pulled away, taking a 66-50 lead on Dell’Orso’s 3-pointer with 6:40 left. BYU cut the deficit 73-68 with 1:05 remaining but couldn’t get any closer.
Dell’Orso made a corner 3 at the halftime buzzer to give Arizona a 42-35 advantage.
Arizona played without starting forward Koa Peat and backup guard Dwayne Aristode. The school said Peat will also miss Saturday’s game against No. 2 Houston because of a muscle strain in his lower leg area. He’ll be re-evaluated next week.
Aristode missed his second straight game with an illness.
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One thing I will say is that the U of A has a stamp, an imprint; it stands for something foundational. Unlike its metropolis counterpoint to the North (ASU / Phoenix), U of A has a legacy. As Lloyd and SVP exchanged on ESPN after their BYU game last night: Lloyd: “a great basketball legacy at Arizona, a great community and a great university. … .” U of A is a brotherhood; ASU is a disbanded underachieving conundrum of apathy. Hurley has tried, but even his energy cannot pull ASU out of its longstanding foundational funk. Aside from Harden and Bennet (mid 90s), I can’t recall top players or deep tournament runs ever being an expectation at ASU, yet Lute Olsen was able to build a thriving legacy in a horse town dump like Tucson while ASU has apathetically lingered in mediocrity…. Like SVP said afterwards to Lloyd: “well, they say bear down in your part of the world. You guys did tonight.” U of A has a mantra; they have a following while ASU is simply situated within a beautiful city with pristine weather and a world of unfulfilled potential.
I mean, even as a father I can see this. I just sent my second son to U of A this past fall to start his university career; my oldest is already a senior at U of A. And yes, we live in Phoenix metro. And I was a professor of 17 years at ASU and wouldn’t dare send my own kids to that 70s-styled campus that lacks any teaching credibility (but is a very good tier I research university), at least not in the departments where my kids are studying. Sorry, Crowe, but you have been eating your own for years now, continuing a “legacy” of apathy (but with your own spin that has taken ASU to another level of febreze-covered house-of-cards pretentious foulness).
Rats perfectly setting themselves up for a deep Madness run. Undefeated monkey off their back, and lower ranking makes them less of a target.
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