When it comes to basketball, there are games when neither team can get the ball to go through the net, no matter how good their opportunities are. In these games, singular moments defined by hustle plays that rarely have to do with scoring dictate a winner.
On Saturday night, it was not a buzzer-beater that gave ASU (18-8, 9-6 Pac-12) a 70-62 overtime-victory over Cal (3-22, 2-12). It was Desmond Cambridge Jr making a hustle play.
Up by 1 point with under a minute to play, Cambridge Jr. tracked down a missed-ASU free-throw, saved it from going out of bounds, and found DJ Horne to drill a jumper to go up by 3 points.