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Rapid Recap: Arizona State dominates Nevada 98-73 in First-Four, advance to play TCU

With what started as a Nevada Wolf Pack lead 15 seconds of the game could not have ended up more on the opposite end of the spectrum in Wednesday evening’s historic first-four competition in Dayton, Ohio.

Courtesy of outpouring 53 first-half points, the most they had a single game this season, the Arizona State Sun Devils dominated Nevada, 98-73, in their most complete performance of the 2022-23 season.

The Sun Devils — who ranked No. 308 (out of 363 teams) in effective field goal percentage, No. 315 in 3-point percentage (31.4 percent) and No. 274 in 2-point percentage (47.