He was a bit overzealous.

With 36 seconds left and the game hanging in the balance, UCLA senior center Alfred Aboya looked like a madman.

Right in front of his team’s bench, Aboya jumped and waved his arms, yelling like a barbarian.

But before ASU sophomore Rihards Kuksiks could even inbounds the basketball, Aboya reached over the sideline and knocked it loose.

Kuksiks threw up his hands, looking confused.

A few seconds after that, a man in a black-and-white striped shirt walked toward the scorer’s table and made a “T” shape with his hands.

Moments later, ASU junior guard Derek Glasser calmly knocked down two technical free throws at the other end of the court to put the Sun Devils up 71-67.

Just like that, the game was wrapped up. And not a second ticked off the clock.

After the final horn sounded, hundreds of maroon-and-gold-clad hooligans rushed the court, making even Aboya look tame.

And why not?

The Sun Devils trumped No. 11 UCLA (19-5, 8-3 Pac-10) 74-67, to sweep the Bruins for only the third time in more than 30 years.

So what does the victory mean to ASU senior Jeff Pendergraph, who had lost his initial six contests to UCLA?

“I can hang out with [UCLA senior guard] Darren [Collison] and talk crap to him,” said Pendergraph of his high-school buddy. “I actually got something to bring to the table, instead of him just talking about how they’ve been kicking my butt the whole time I’ve been here.

“Now I can walk into a room with my chest out like ‘Yeah, what you going to say now?’”

The two friends will forever be linked by a controversial foul call in this game as well.

With 39 seconds left and his team down 69-67, Collison drove to the hoop looking to tie the game up.

Pendergraph got position under the hoop and drew a charging foul.

He called it the biggest charge of his life. Sophomore guard James Harden joked it was the first charge he’d ever seen Pendergraph take.

UCLA coach Ben Howland wasn’t as jovial after the game.

“Obviously, a bitter, disappointing loss to a very good team,” he said. “[The charge] was a play that I would like to see [for] myself on replay, because I thought it was actually an and-one … I thought it was a block.”

The contest wasn’t the defensive battle that most expected, but it was nothing less than a war.

Both teams were deft from the floor, with ASU shooting an incredible 60 percent for the game. But the stats only tell part of the story.

No. 18 ASU (19-5, 8-4) shot an identical 12-for-20 in both halves to snap a month-long offensive funk. It was especially deadly from 3-point range, knocking down 11-of-18 attempts. All five of ASU’s starters notched double-digit points.

Though they were all necessary, no three was bigger than the one Glasser hit with 1:17 left in the game.

“I drove right, [UCLA senior forward] Josh [Shipp] was forcing me left and Darren Collison helped like he had been all game,” Harden said. “At the end, I passed it to him and he made a big three.”

Harden found Glasser in the corner for his career-high 11th assist and the junior guard swished it home to put ASU up 69-67.

The first half was everything it was supposed to be.

ASU took the game’s early momentum, stroking it from behind the arc.

The Sun Devils hit five of their first seven 3-pointers en route to an early 24-12 lead. Meanwhile, UCLA senior forward Josh Shipp did his best to carry the Bruins on his back.

Shipp accounted for 10 of UCLA’s initial 15 points, dunking, nailing threes and making nice moves on the baseline along the way.

By the time ASU junior guard Derek Glasser converted both free throws of a one-and-one opportunity, the Sun Devils held a 30-20 lead.

That’s when the Bruins really went to work, rattling off a 10-0 run of their own.

UCLA got a huge boost from bench player Michael Roll, who converted an and-one opportunity before knocking down a 3-pointer to knot the game up at 30-30.

The two teams traded baskets the rest of the way, with Roll nailing a 3-pointer at the buzzer to bring the score to 35-35 at the break.

Reach the reporter at alex.espinoza@asu.edu.