SAN DIEGO - San Diego State plays its final Mountain West match-up in Reno, Nev., against the Nevada Wolf Pack, on Tuesday evening with the tip scheduled for 8 p.m. PT at Lawlor Events Center.
OFF THE BOUNCE
The Aztecs and Wolf Pack are meeting for the 36th time, with SDSU holding a 28-7 advantage in the series which includes a 8-7 mark in games played at Nevada’s home court.
San Diego State moved to 1-2 all-time in triple overtime games, with its 110-107 win over Boise State (1-3-26) and played its first since Dec. 6, 2000, vs. UCSB.
SDSU ranks No. 2 in the nation with 43.15 bench points per game and has totaled at least 40 bench points in eight of the last nine and nine of the last 11 games, which included an astounding 69 bench points versus Whittier College (12-22-25).
The 217 combined points in the Boise State game (110-107) are tied for the fourth most in a game in SDSU’s DI history and most since a 226-point game on Feb. 12, 1971 (San Diego State beat U.S. International, 123-103).
San Diego State ranks No. 2 in percentage of bench points vs. total points among the top 10 bench scoring teams in the nation. The Aztecs are getting 51.3 percent of its offensive production from its reserves (561-of-983).
The Aztecs bench is out scoring its opponent’s reserves by 22.53 points per game. SDSU’s bench has scored 561 points through 13 games, an average of 43.15 per game, compared to its oppositions 268 points, an average of 20.62.
BJ Davis leads the Aztecs in scoring (13.0 ppg) without the benefit of a start. Among those who have played no more than 289 minutes without a start, Davis ranks No. 1 in the nation in points per game off the bench.
BJ Davis (22 pts, 11 rebs, 6 assts, 4 stls) became the second Aztec since at least the 1996-97 season to total at least 20 pts, 10 rebs, 5 assts & 4 stls in the same game (also Jamaal Franklin vs. Redlands on Dec. 30, 2011) and the first to do it against a Division I opponent.
SDSU shot 65.5 percent from the floor in the first half vs. Boise State. It was the second time this season (also vs. Oregon - 69.0 percent) it has shot at least that high a percentage in the opening 20 minutes and the sixth time in the Mountain West era.
San Diego State’s 121 points scored against Whittier are the fourth most in a game in its Division I era (since the start of the 1970-71 season) and the fifth highest point total in program history. The single game record for points by an Aztec team is 140 vs. Chapman on January 15, 1953.
For a program known for its defense, the 2025-26 Aztecs are filling it up on the offensive end of the floor. The team is averaging 84.1 points per game through 13 contests. SDSU’s best scoring team as a Division I program was its 1970-71 team, its first at the Division I level, which averaged 86.9 points per game. San Diego State, in its Division I history, has had five seasons where it’s scored at an 80-plus point per game clip. The program’s best scoring year in the Mountain West era was the 2017-18 squad, Brian Dutcher’s first leading the program, which averaged 77.1 points per game.
In the last seven games, the Aztec bench has scored 53.6 percent of the team’s total points (324-of-604) and BJ Davis is responsible for 31.5 percent of those points (102-of-324).
San Diego State is 1-of-3 programs in the nation with at least nine games in which its bench has scored at least 40 points and in which no more than one of those games were against non-Division I opponents.
The Aztecs bench totaled 59 points in its 77-66 win over Utah Valley. The 59 bench points are its highest against a Division I opponent since totaling 57 at Air Force (1-22-20) & the most for a Mountain West team, against a Division I opponent, since December 16, 2018.
San Diego State’s 76.6 percent of bench points-to-total points against Utah Valley is the ninth highest in a Division I game since at least the start of the 1996-97 season.
Its game against Oregon at the Players Era Festival marked the second time since the start of the 1999-00 season, that the SDSU was successful on at least 65.0 percent of its field goal attempts against a Division I opponent, bettered only by a 69.6 percent (48-of-69) effort against Campbell on December 12, 2006, in a 119-82 victory. The Aztecs shot over 65.0 percent in each half; 69.0 percent (20-of-29) in the first half and 65.5 percent (19-of-29) in the second half.
Freshman Elzie Harrington earned his first start in his sixth game as an Aztec, which is the fewest games for a freshman to crack the starting line up since Jeremy Hemsley started each of the first 25 games of the 2015-16 season.
Under Brian Dutcher, the Aztecs have held opponents to 60 points or less 121 times and have won 114 of those games (114-7, 94.2 percent). Overall, Dutcher’s Aztecs have held their opponent to 60 or fewer points in 43.4 percent (121-of-279) of the games he has coached.
Brian Dutcher is the only San Diego State head men’s basketball coach to accumulate at least 21 wins in each of his first eight seasons and is averaging 24.8 wins per season coming into the 2025-26 campaign.
Brian Dutcher reached the 200-win plateau with a 73-57 victory against Idaho State (11-9-25), becoming the third Aztec head coach with at least 200 wins. The other two are Aztec Hall of Fame inductees George Ziegenfuss (1949-69) with 316 wins and Steve Fisher (2000-17) with a program record 386.
San Diego State owns a 164-48 record (77.4 percent) since the start of the 2019-20 campaign, which is the FOURTH BEST record in the nation. SDSU trails Gonzaga at 190-31 (86.0 percent), Houston at 196-33 (85.6 percent) and Duke at 172-47 (78.5 percent) and is ahead of the likes of Connecticut 163-53 (75.5 percent) and Kansas 165-54 (75.3 percent).
San Diego State owns the SIXTH BEST record in the nation overall and in home games since the start of the 2005-06 campaign, 512-184 (.736) overall & 285-39 (.880) in contests at Steve Fisher Court, plus is No. 11 in road contests 139-96 (.591).
San Diego State returns 61.9 percent of its minutes from a year ago, according to T-Rank, and those are the second most returning minutes in the nation among teams Torvik ranks in his top 50, behind Purdue (69.7 percent).