April 8, 2010
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego State women's basketball team earned a No. 20 ranking in the final ESPN/USA Today Coaches top 25 poll released late Wednesday evening by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association. The top 25 ranking is the Aztecs' first to end a season since the poll began in 1986.
SDSU earned 174 points overall and was one of five squads that entered the NCAA tournament unranked and finished up in the top 25. The Aztecs are also the first Mountain West Conference school to land in the final coaches' top 25 in four years since three schools, Utah (No. 12), BYU (No. 20) and New Mexico (No. 21), made it in 2006.
San Diego State received votes in the ESPN/USA Today poll seven times earlier year, including in the preseason, and was rated No. 24 in the Nov. 24 edition.
The Aztecs have appeared in the Associated Press Top 25 final poll twice in program history, finishing No. 20 in 1985 and No. 22 in 1995. That No. 22 ranking in 1995 was the last time the squad achieved an AP top 25 ranking until this season when it was rated No. 23 on Nov. 23, a span of 14 years.
San Diego State finished its 2009-10 campaign with a 23-11 record, won the program's first-ever Mountain West Conference Championship and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 with victories over two top 20 schools.