JONESBORO -- In a game when both teams made more shots than they missed, Arkansas State beat Troy 82-80 Saturday night because it made one more shot.
"When you're playing a team like that, you better score," Arkansas State Coach Grant McCasland said. "If not, you're walking out of here with a frown, so our guys responded and kept battling."
The Red Wolves shot 70.4 percent from the floor in the second half, rallying from a 10-point second-half deficit in front of a season-high crowd of 4,678 Saturday night at the Convocation Center.
Arkansas State (13-6, 4-2 Sun Belt Conference) didn't take its first second-half lead until 69-67 with 5:02 left, and the game went back and forth from there until ASU's Deven Simms scored four consecutive, including two free throws off a steal, for an 81-78 lead with 51 seconds left.