MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Arizona State used a balanced scoring effort to knock off 23^rd-ranked West Virginia 65-57 Tuesday night at the WVU Coliseum.
 
Freshman forward Jayden Quaintance led the Sun Devils with 15 points and 12 rebounds to help them snap their four-game Big 12 losing streak.
 
Basheer Jihad added 15, BJ Freeman tallied 14 and Adam Miller contributed 10 for Arizona State, now 11-7 overall and 2-5 in Big 12 play.
 
"They have multiple guys that can come at you and put you in some tough spots," West Virginia coach Darian DeVries said. "Our defense has been really good, and when our offense was struggling, we had opportunities to crawl back into the game with our defense and really for the first time all year we weren't able to get stops at the times we needed to."
 
West Virginia, coming off a 64-57 victory over Iowa State last Saturday, had a miserable time shooting the basketball tonight against the taller Sun Devils. 
 
WVU connected on just 18 of its 58 field goal attempts for 31% and went nearly eight minutes before making its first basket of the second half.  All six West Virginia points prior to that were Javon Small free throws before Eduardo Andre's layup with 12:52 remaining.
 
ASU led by as many as 13 points and never trailed after intermission.
 
Arizona State scored 36 of its 65 points in the paint and totally dominated the glass. The Sun Devils outrebounded the Mountaineers 46 to 28 and at one point midway through the second half, WVU's only two boards were credited as team rebounds.
 
Fourteen of ASU's rebounds came on the offensive glass.
 
West Virginia, in a difficult portion of its schedule playing its fifth game in nine days, including a two-game western swing to Colorado and Houston last week, really struggled from behind the 3-point arc tonight.
 
The Mountaineers (13-5, 4-3) connected on just 4 of their 28 threes with leading scorer Small missing all eight of his attempts.
 
"They did a nice job on him," DeVries said. "They kept the ball in front of them and when we had possessions, there were not enough of them where we got good movement to be able to get some (good scoring) opportunities."
 
Small got 10 of his team-high 14 points from the free throw line. Freshman Jonathan Powell was the only other Mountaineer to reach double figures with 12.
 
Nearly half (28) of the team's 57 points came off Arizona State's 15 turnovers. Otherwise, it was struggle for WVU to score.
 
"At the end of the day, we settled too much. We didn't get enough action on the backside to create confusion and that's the result we ended up with," DeVries noted.
 
"There were times when their length near the rim did bother us," he said. "It didn't maybe result in a lot of blocked shots, but I thought their presence was there."
 
West Virginia's players finally get a day off tomorrow, which will be helpful to guard Sencire Harris, who has been battling through an illness.
 
"He wasn't able to practice the last couple of days, but he gave us all he had when he was out there tonight," DeVries said. 
 
West Virginia is back on the road to play at Kansas State on Saturday night. The game will tip off at 6 p.m. and will be televised nationally on CBS Sports Network.