Nov. 18, 2007
SAN DIEGO - San Diego State Game Notes | SDSU Broadcast Flip Card
San Diego State (4-0/0-0 MWC) at San Diego (2-1/0-0 WCC)
Television
Channel 4 San Diego. Steve Quis (play-by-play) and Jim Brogan (analysis).
Radio
AM 600 KOGO. Ted Leitner (play-by-play) will call the action.
SDSU Looks to Keep Perfect Record Intact When it Travels to Jenny Craig Pavilion For City Showdown
Off to a 4-0 start for the second consecutive season for the first time in the Division I era and the first time since the 1966-67 and 1967-68 seasons, when Lyndon B. Johnson was in the White House, San Diego State (4-0) makes the 9.4-mile journey to the campus of San Diego (2-1) for the 39th renewal of the city championship.
The city's two Division I schools meet for the 10th consecutive season on Monday night at the Jenny Craig Pavilion. Tip-off is set for 7:05 p.m. PST with the game being televised by Channel 4 San Diego. AM 600 KOGO, the flagship station of San Diego State athletics, will have the radio call.
San Diego State is 4-0 on the season following a 76-60 victory over Division II UC San Diego on Saturday night in front of 6,706 fans at Cox Arena. Freshman forward Billy White, making his first collegiate start, was 10-for-11 from the field with a game-high 20 points and a team-high nine rebounds. He became the first Aztec freshman since Matt Thomas during the 2004-05 campaign to record a 20-point scoring game.
The Aztecs won their fourth consecutive game by double figures, marking the first time SDSU has accomplished the feat at any point in a season since the 2002-03 campaign. The 2007-08 squad became the first SDSU team in 25 seasons to win its first four games of the season by double-digits.
Prior to the season starting, head coach Steve Fisher called this Aztec squad one of his deepest and San Diego State has not disappointed. The Aztecs currently have six players averaging in double figures, nine players averaging 15 or more minutes a game (although not all nine of those have seen action in all four games) and six players have already made a three-point field goal. Of the six players averaging in double figures, five are shooting 50 percent or better from the floor. As a team, the Aztecs are shooting 51.2 percent from the field, 44.1 percent from three-point range and have made more free throws than their opponents have attempted.
San Diego is 2-1 on the campaign, with victories at Hawai'i (73-72) and over Cal State Monterey Bay (87-76) and a 66-55 loss to UNLV on Saturday night. The Toreros are led by Gyno Pomare, averaging 16.3 points and 9.0 rebounds per game.
Monday marks the 39th meeting between the teams, with the Aztecs holding a 21-17 lead in the series. San Diego State has won four of the last five games in the series.
USD owns an 8-5 edge when playing the game as the home team and San Diego State is 5-7 when playing the Toreros on the USD campus. Since 1975, SDSU is just 1-5 when playing on the USD campus, with that one victory coming four years ago (66-63 on Dec. 3, 2003).
For just the ninth time in the history of the series and the second consecutive season, San Diego State enters the USD game undefeated. The Aztecs are 7-1 in the previous eight times they have entered the contest with a perfect record.