Playing for the fourth time in eight days, Arkansas State's limited roster seemingly ran out of gas on Saturday afternoon.
Sean Gardner scored a career-high 26 points and Devin Carter had 19, but ASU got off to another slow start and couldn't climb completely back in a 78-68 loss to Texas State in San Marcos, Texas.
ASU trailed by as much as 31-17 in the first half, and got as close as 56-55 after a Gardner three-pointer with 8:59 left in the game. Texas State's Ethan Montalvo answered with a three-pointer to spark a string of seven consecutive points to make it 66-55 and ASU never got closer than eight while not making a field goal in the final 2:32.