Four months ago, Arizona State sophomore Kimani Lawrence stood in the left corner, parallel to the south baseline of T-Mobile Arena, patiently awaiting an opportunity. Moments later, the forward delivered a go-ahead 3 from the corner in the final minute to will the Sun Devils past then-No. 15 Mississippi State.
With ASU clinging to a waning lead in their 79-75 loss to Oregon on Friday night, Lawrence drove right, stepped in from the baseline and knocked down a pull-up jump shot only steps away from the location of his mid-November heroics.
The basket put the Pac-12’s second-place team ahead by three with 2:05 to play.