Jan. 17, 2006
SAN DIEGO - SAN DIEGO STATE GAME NOTES | SDSU BROADCAST FLIP CARD
San Diego State (10-6/3-1 MWC) at TCU (4-13/0-3 MWC)
Television
No live television coverage.
Radio
XPRS 1090-AM, San Diego - Ted Leitner
First Place Aztecs Face Mountain West Conference's Newest Member TCU on Wednesday Night; Looking for Best League Start Since 1995-96 Season
San Diego State (10-6 overall; 3-1 Mountain West Conference), winners of six of its last eight games in a three-way tie for first place in the Mountain West Conference, travels to Fort Worth, Texas, to face first-year league member TCU (4-13; 0-3).
Game time is set for 7 p.m. CST (5 p.m. PST) and there is no live television for the contest. XPRS-1090 will provide radio coverage in San Diego with Ted Leitner providing play-by-play.
On Saturday, San Diego State ran its home record to 7-1 on the season and recorded its fifth straight victory at Cox Arena with an 83-67 victory over UNLV. The 16-point win was SDSU's largest in a MWC game since Feb. 24, 2003.
Preseason Mountain West Conference player of the year Marcus Slaughter proved he is fully recovered from the second degree MCL injury he suffered last month. The junior became just the sixth player in SDSU history to pull down 20 rebounds in a game and added 20 points and five blocked shots. Junior guard Brandon Heath added 17 points and a game-high five assists.
SDSU trailed, 38-32 at intermission, but opened the second half on a 17-5 run to take control of the game. The Aztecs shot 39.7 percent from the field, their lowest in a victory since Feb. 21, 2004, but countered with a 42-37 rebound edge, a positive turnover margin for just the fourth time this season and outscored the Rebels 31-6 at the free throw line. The Aztecs improve to 9-2 this season when getting more free throw attempts than its opponent.
Slaughter's game will go down as one of the greatest in SDSU history. His 20 rebounds are the 11th most in the 85 seasons of Aztec basketball and for just the third time in the Division I era, an SDSU player had a 20-20 game against a conference opponent. His five blocked shots are the most ever by an SDSU player in an MWC game.
TCU is coming off a 75-49 loss at Air Force on Saturday. The Horned Frogs' 4-13 record is a bit misleading as they have suffered nine single-digit losses including a four-point loss to Wyoming and a two-point loss at New Mexico.
A victory would give SDSU its best start to a conference campaign in 10 seasons, since 1995-96. Only four times in the previous 35 seasons has SDSU opened conference play with a 4-1 record.