Aug. 16, 2017
SAN DIEGO - San Diego State men's basketball head coach Brian Dutcher announced today that Matt Mitchell has joined the program. The 6-6, 225-pound small forward will enroll at the University in time for the fall semester and be eligible to play beginning this season.
Hailing from Corona and Roosevelt High School, Mitchell is a three-star signee, according to Rivals and Scout and was named The Press-Enterprise's HSGametime Boys Basketball Player of the Year for the 2016-17 campaign.
Earning the Inland Empire's top individual award came after a highly successful senior season in which Mitchell helped Roosevelt (26-8; 10-0) win its first Big VIII League title, capture the CIF Southern California Regional championship and claim the CIF State Division I crown.
After raising three different trophies in 2017, Mitchell finished with senior-season averages of 25.4 points, 9.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.2 steals, while making 41 percent of his three-point attempts and 89 percent from the charity stripe. Additionally, he posted 10 games with at least 30 points, had 26 games where he scored a minimum of 20, and recorded 16 double-doubles.
Mitchell, in three seasons at Roosevelt, helped the Mustangs to a 71-22 overall record and a 27-3 league record. Prior to his time at Roosevelt, he guided King High School as a freshman to a CIF Southern Section Division IA championship.
San Diego State in 2017-18 is set to return three starters, including an all-conference backcourt of Trey Kell and Jeremy Hemsley, and five players overall (Montaque Gill-Caesar, Hemsley, Max Hoetzel, Kell, Malik Pope) who saw action in the starting lineup a year ago. The Aztecs also add Devin Watson to the roster after he sat out last season following his transfer from San Francisco where he averaged 20.3 points and 4.9 assists as a sophomore in 2015-16. In addition to Watson, SDSU will welcome four-star athletes Jalen McDaniels (redshirt freshman) and Jordan Schakel (true freshman), and three-star guard Adam Seiko (true freshman).