Again poor shooting doomed any chance for the Oregon to close the books on a happier note. The Ducks missed from everywhere - lay-ups, three-pointers and everywhere in between. Chalk it up to one last Mac Court miracle that Oregon held a one point lead at 49-48 with just over eight minutes remaining.

Arizona State took an early lead and held serve through the half, and held a 28-24 lead at the break.

Jay-R Strowbridge's lay-up brought the Ducks even at 30, then Oregon pushed their lead to five on two occasions, 37-32 and 40-35. E.J. Singler and Joevan Catron led the Oregon attack and although only at ¾ capacity the old building shook to life.

But ASU scored five straight to tie then took a four point margin as the game entered its last ten minutes.

Two free throws by Garrett Sim gave Oregon their last lead but Arizona State took control of the game down the stretch, building a five point lead on Corey Hawkins' three point bomb. Three minutes later the clock showed zeros for the final time.

Singler led Oregon with 19 points and Joevan Catron added 11. The Ducks hit 17 of 53 attempts from the floor - 4-16 from three - a 32.1% clip. Arizona State wasn't much better in the opening 20 minutes, hitting for 34.% but the Sun Devils scalded the net at a 64.7% clip after the break.

If there were bright spots for head coach Dana Altman to find it would have been rebounding - the Ducks held a 36-33 advantage on the glass -  and the Ducks came away with 10 steals of their press.

But it was Oregon's poor shooting that dominated his post game remarks.

"Disappointing loss," said Altman.

"We are going through a slump here. I am not saying that we are a great shooting team but we are a much better shooting team than what we've displayed. But to get through that we've got to try to win games differently. Defensively ... on the boards ... and our guys haven't really bought into that. If the shots aren't going they may hang their heads - we gave up 64 percent in the second half."

"We had a run - we had our chance to win the game defensively. Even as poor as we shot it we could have won it with our defense and we just didn't do that."

"Teams get the film," said Catron. "They definitely play a zone . they are just daring us to make shots."

There won't be much incentive for anyone to anything different until the Ducks quit clanging rims.

Oregon travels north to face Washington and Washington State before the debut of Matthew Knight Arena on January 13 when the Ducks host USC.