LAS VEGAS — It always ends in a loss.
Save for the lucky select few that win their respective postseason tournaments, the cruel reality of this sport is that nearly all of the 351 teams playing Division I basketball will end their season with disappointment.
The Arizona State Sun Devils met that fate on Thursday afternoon, running out of gas in the second half against the top-seeded Oregon Ducks in the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals.
An exhausted Arizona State team (15-17) shot just 24.2 percent from the field in the final stanza, watching a three-point halftime deficit turn into an 80-57 defeat in the process.