ASU women's basketball defeats Oregon

January 14, 2010

<a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/orsillo_danielle00.htm… Orsillo</a> scored 17 points and Arizona State held the Pac-10's highest scoring team to its second-lowest point total of the year in a 73-68 win over Oregon Thursday night.<separator></separator>Micaela Cocks scored 15 points for Oregon, which came into the game scoring 87 points a game and had scored less than 78 points only once all season under first-year coach Paul Westhead, who has used a run-and-gun style as a men's and women's collegiate and professional coach over his three decades in the game.<separator></separator> Taylor Lilley added 14 points and three steals for the Ducks (12-4, 3-1) who had won four of the last five and hadn't scored less than 78 points since the 58-57 loss to Wisconsin on Nov. 28.<separator></separator> <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/tobin_becca00.html">Be… Tobin</a> added 10 of her 12 points in the second half as the Sun Devils (10-6, 2-3) began to break the Oregon full-court press and took advantage of a pair of Oregon turnovers to run off seven straight points and break a 37-37 tie early in the second half. An Orsillo jumper gave Arizona State a 55-41 lead with 9:11 left.<separator></separator> In the first 10 minutes of the second half Oregon was 1-of-8 from inside the arc but had made all three of its 3-pointers to stay close.<separator></separator>The Ducks got within 70-68 with 15 seconds left on Amanda Johnson's layup but <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/murphy_kayli01.html">K… Murphy</a>, who scored all of her 11 points from the line, made two free throws three seconds later to help secure the win.