Since blowing a big second half lead to UCLA in mid-December, a game that was decided by turnovers, Arizona had been fairly good at taking care of the ball. As a result, it won 13 of 14 to go from a team on the outside of the NCAA Tournament picture to one looking like it would get a pretty good seed.

The turnover troubles returned on Tuesday night for 13th-ranked Arizona, leading to a 73-70 loss at Kansas State to snap a 6-game win streak.

The UA (17-7, 11-2 Big 12) gave it away 17 times, which Kansas State converted into 23 points. The last of those turnovers came with 6.1 seconds left when Jaden Bradley’s inbound pass to midcourt went right to Dug McDaniel, eliminating any chance for Arizona to get a shot to tie it.

It did get one a few seconds later, after K-State’s Max Jones missed two free throws with 3.1 seconds left, but Caleb Love wasn’t able to replicate his heroics from the Iowa State game two weeks ago.

Arizona shot 41.3 percent and was 2 of 22 from 3 yet led by two with 4:05 left before giving up the lead for good on an 8-0 run.

K-State (13-11, 7-6) won its six straight, fourth against a ranked opponent, despite going 1 of 19 from 3 and being outrebounded by 13. The points off turnovers were the big difference, as was the play of guard Dug McDaniel, who had 24 points with most of his baskets coming off shots that banked off the backboard.

KJ Lewis led the UA with 15 points, 13 in the second half, while Bradley had 3, Henri Veesaar 12 and Tobe Awaka 10. Carter Bryant added a career-high 11 rebounds, while Love finished with just seven points on 3-of-15 shooting including 0 of 7 from 3.

Down 35-29 at halftime, Arizona got a basket inside from Awaka 10 seconds in to end a nearly 4-minute scoring drought. Awaka and Veesaar started together, and after falling behind nine the UA got within 43-38 with 14:12 left.

Scores on three consecutive possessions, which hadn’t happened since midway through the first half, cut the deficit to 45-44. A steal and score by Lewis gave the UA a 48-46 lead with 10:11 to go, but K-State scored seven of the next nine to go up 53-50.

Lewis fouled McDaniel on a 3, the second time he did that in the game, and McDaniel made all three foul shots to extend K-State’s lead to 56-50 with 6:27 left. He made up for it by hitting only the second 3 of the game for the UA to tie it at 60 with 4:59 remaining, and his floater put it up 62-40 with 4:04 to go.

Then McDaniel got back to his bank shot action, hitting consecutive shots high off the glass to put K-State in the lead, then David N’Guessan scored inside to make it 66-62 with 1:48 to go. All of that came after a review with 3:29 left that determined K-State kept possession despite the shot clock appearing to have run out.

After a timeout, a bad pass by Bradley led to a K-State dunk and a 6-point edge to complete an 8-0 run. Bradley had five turnovers.

It became mostly a free throw battle after that, with Arizona taking advantage of some K-State misses to keep the game alive. A drive by Love cut it to 70-68 with 28.6 seconds left and Lewis’ putback got the UA within 71-70 with 6.9 seconds left, but after Brendan Hausen made two foul shots with 6.1 seconds to go Bradley’s pass went awry.

The first 7-plus minutes were back and forth, with no possession resulting in a second shot. That changed when Kansas State got a putback off a missed layup which came after one of four turnovers Arizona had in the first 7:25.

The UA was still able to build multiple 7-point leads, though, including a 29-22 advantage with 3:49 left in the first half. But it wouldn’t score again before the break, getting outscored 13-0 the rest of the way. It was only the fourth run of 10-0 or more allowed by Arizona this season.

K-State had 11 points off eight UA turnovers in the first half.

The UA returns home Saturday for the big showdown against No. 6 Houston, which has a 1-game lead on Arizona.