It's been more than two months since the Arizona State men's basketball team has won a game on its home floor. It is going to have to wait a whole lot longer.

The Sun Devils closed out the regular season against No. 9 Texas Tech on Saturday at Desert Financial Arena, and the game followed an all-too-familiar pattern as ASU battled, only to be dealt an 85-57 setback by the Red Raiders (24-7, 15-5).

Texas Tech finishes the regular season second in the Big 12 to Houston.

ASU (13-18, 4-16) last won a home game Jan. 4 against Colorado in the second conference game of the season. This marked the Sun Devils' ninth straight home loss.

"It's haunting. It's haunting to hear the other team celebrate down the hall. It's just a haunting sound," coach Bobby Hurley said. "It's been brutal. Everybody deserves better. Our fans deserve better. We should be winning games at home.

"We've had a few we could have gotten and we didn't get them. I don't know if it becomes a mental block and you couple that with other stuff we're going through and here we are."

The Sun Devils will play their first-round game of the Big 12 Tournament against Kansas State (15-16, 9-11) on Tuesday at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City. It will be the third meeting between the teams. ASU won the most recent game 66-54 in Manhattan. The Wildcats defeated ASU in Tempe 71-70 earlier in the season.

Saturday was another game in which Hurley had a limited supply of players. Only five of those were supposed to be key rotation players, with the only other two doing so out of necessity.

Senior guard Adam Miller missed the game with hip and oblique injuries. Freshman forward Jayden Quaintance was out for the seventh time, now with a right knee injury after he had earlier been slowed by a sprained ankle. Count B.J. Freeman, who was dismissed from the team, and that's three starters ASU is effectively down.

Despite being shorthanded, ASU battled.

Texas Tech's Christian Anderson banked in a 3-pointer at the buzzer before halftime to expand the Red Raiders' narrow lead to four at 36-32. The first 20 minutes featured six ties and six lead changes.

The game got away from ASU midway through the second half.

ASU shot a respectable 47.8% (11-for-23) in the first half but shot only 28.6% (8-for-28) in the second.

Hurley said he wasn't sure how much of that was due to fatigue but added his team has to do other things well to win a game.

"That has to be a factor," he said. "How to measure that is difficult. For the most part we have been in these games, given ourselves a chance, even though it hasn't gone our way we have some key players out. ... Playing that many small, fast guys and not having great size, you have to be able to be disruptive, to figure out a way and I don't know if that's not expending enough energy, not trying hard enough or what but it's not acceptable defensively."

Seven players who were part of Hurley's top nine players now have missed a combined 52 games, and ASU had its core players available for just five of 20 conference games.

Basheer Jihad led ASU with 22 points, matching his season high. Joson Sanon and Alston Mason added 16 and 14, respectively.

"It's tough losing a lot of guys, but we have five guys we can put out there to give our best effort," Jihad said. "We had a lot of close games that didn't go our way. We'd be talking a little bit differently if we had a few of those."

Texas Tech got 25 from J.T. Toppin, who had 41 against the Sun Devils the first time the teams played in a double-overtime win for the Red Raiders. Toppin also had 11 rebounds. Anderson added 21 points, including four 3-pointers.

And yes the shortage of bodies has affected the way ASU can practice.

"We don't have practice, really," Hurley said. "It's more like a shootaround that has a little more energy. I can't afford to go live at all. Normally a couple days before a game, I'd go 25% live but now it's zero just because I can't risk someone else getting injured. Just where the numbers are."

Hurley was asked about his future.

He is rounding out his 10th year and has one year left on his contract. There has been speculation as to his job security after a second straight tough season. He said he is thinking only about preparing for the next game and didn't want to divulge any details as to his discussions with athletic director Graham Rossini.