It was arguably the oddest wire to wire win Oregon State has ever had, but in the end, it was still a 75-66 win over Arizona State in the concluding game of the first day of the Pac-12 Tournament in the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
Playing again without Tres Tinkle, their second leading scorer, who is out with a foot injury, and with Coach Wayne Tinkle ill and running a triple digit temperature, getting only 3 first half points from Tinkle's replacement Stephen Thompson Jr in the first half, which was 3 more than Gary Payton II would put up, and Drew Eubanks for that matter, was hardly the formula for early success for the sixth seed Beavers against the 11th seed Sun Devils.