Jan. 23, 2010
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SAN DIEGO (AP)--Jimmer Fredette scored 33 points and helped key a 15-0 run midway through the second half that carried No. 14 BYU to a 71-69 win over San Diego State on Saturday night, the Cougars' 15th straight victory.
BYU (20-1, 5-0 Mountain West Conference) has the second-longest winning streak in the nation, behind Kentucky's 19 straight, and reached 20 wins for the fifth straight season.
The Cougars trailed 50-47 before going on their decisive run. Fredette, the Mountain West's leading scorer with a 19.4 average coming in, had five points, including a 3-pointer. Tyler Haws and Jonathan Tavernari also hit 3-pointers as the Cougars took a 60-50 lead with 6:11 to play.
SDSU pulled to 67-66 on Kawhi Leonard's jumper with 52.7 seconds left before Fredette made a layup with 19.9 seconds to go. BYU's Charles Abouo blocked Kelvin Davis' baseline shot with 4.6 seconds remaining. Davis fouled Fredette and he made two free throws to seal it.
Haws scored 17 for BYU.
Leonard, a freshman, had 16 points and 11 rebounds for SDSU (14-6, 3-3), his ninth double-double. D.J. Gay added 12 and Chase Tapley had 11.
Jimmer had 19 points in the first half, helping BYU to a 35-34 lead at the break.
The Cougars ran off to a 22-10 lead midway through the first half, getting eight points each from Jimmer and Haws.
SDSU scored the next seven points, including a 3-pointer by Chase Tapley, to pull to 22-17. Fredette hit two 3-pointers to extend BYU's lead to 30-21 before the Aztecs scored the next nine points to tie the game, including Tapley's 3-pointer with 2:29 to go.
SDSU got its first lead on Gay's 3-pointer a minute into the second half.