SAN DIEGO – The No. 7 San Diego State men's basketball team, one of two programs yet to suffer a loss in the 2019-20 season, travel to Laramie, Wyo., , where SDSU has just 10 wins in 37 tries, for a Mountain West Conference matchup on Wednesday night.
NEWS AND NOTES (through games of Jan. 6)
-San Diego State looks to continue the second-best start in school history when the No. 7 Aztecs play at Wyoming Wednesday night.
-San Diego State owns the nation's longest win streak (15 games). It is the third longest win streak in school history behind a pair of 20-game streaks during the 2010-11 and 2013-14 seasons.
-San Diego State is one of two undefeated teams nationally. Auburn (13-0), the nation's other undefeated team plays host to Vanderbilt on Wednesday.
-San Diego State is 7-0 in road/neutral games this season. The Aztecs are one of three teams yet to drop a road/neutral game this season and owns the most victories among those teams (also: Auburn 6 and DePaul 4).
-San Diego State's seven-game road/neutral win streak is the fourth longest in school history and the longest streak since a 10-game stretch during the 2013-14 campaign.
-The Aztecs and Cowboys are meeting for the 84th time, with the Aztecs owning a 42-41 series advantage. SDSU has won the last two games in the series, both played in San Diego, and is 5-1 in the last six games played between the teams regardless of location.
-SDSU is 10-27 lifetime in Laramie and lost its last game played in Arena-Auditorium, an 82-69 setback on Dec. 27, 2017. San Diego State is just 2-2 as a nationally-ranked team in Laramie, with losses in its last two visits as an AP Top-25 team. SDSU lost as the No. 3 team, 68-62, on Feb. 11, 2014 and as the No. 15 team, 58-45, on Jan. 19, 2013.
-San Diego State has established itself as the most dominant team in road/neutral site games this season. As noted, the Aztecs possess the nation's best record away from home at 7-0. SDSU's +17.4 scoring margin is also the best in the country (Duke is second at 17.3 ppg). SDSU is also first in road/neutral games in the following statistical categories: FG percentage differential (+10.7) and three-point field goal percentage (+16.2).
-San Diego State jumped six spots in the Associated Press Top-25 Poll this week, from No. 13 to No. 7. Now nationally ranked for a fifth consecutive week, the Aztecs have their highest ranking in the poll since SDSU was ranked No. 6 on Feb. 17, 2014.
-San Diego State is enjoying its 71st appearance in the AP Top-25 Poll this week (all have occurred since the start of the 2010-11 campaign). Since the start of the '10-11 season, SDSU's 71 weeks in the top 25 are the 23rd most nationally.
-San Diego State's metrics continue to pace at an elite level. The Aztecs are currently 1st in NET (the last time San Diego State was not at the top of this chart was Dec. 21), 1st in strength of record, 9th in RPI, 8th in Sagarin, 18th in BPI, and 21st in KenPom.
-San Diego State's 5-0 record in NCAA NET Quadrant 1 games is the best in the nation. The only other undefeated team in Q1 games (minimum three games played) is Duke (3-0). No team has more Q1 victories than San Diego State.
-With the fast start, San Diego State finds itself ranked among the nation's elite in several statistical categories, including 4th in scoring margin (+18.9), 4th in three-point field goal percentage differential (+11.7), 5th in scoring defense (56.8), 8th in field goal percentage defense (36.5), 12th in three-point field goal defense (26.5), 14th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.40), 15th in field goal percentage differential (+9.7) and 24th in three-point field goal percentage (38.2).
-San Diego State improved to 15-0 overall and 4-0 in conference play on Saturday with a 77-68 victory at Utah State. For the fifth straight game and the 12th time in 15 games this season the Aztecs did not face a second-half deficit in picking up the victory. SDSU handed Utah State its first home loss in 360 days snapping the nation's seventh-longest win streak at 15 games. Malachi Flynn scored 22 points (going 10-for-10 from the free-throw line), Matt Mitchell scored a season-high 19 points and added seven rebounds and Jordan Schakel made 3-of-4 three-point field goal attempts en route to 11 points. SDSU outrebounded Utah State, a squad that entered the game as one of the nation's leading rebounding teams, 34-30.
-San Diego State has four players averaging in double figures (10.2 points or more) and six players averaging 6.9 points or more. Six Aztec players have scored 13 or more points in a game this season.
-Junior guard Malachi Flynn has been one of the best players in the nation through the opening two months of the season. A transfer from Washington State, Flynn leads the Aztecs in scoring (15.9), assists (5.1) and steals (1.6). He is the only player in the nation to average 15 and five while owning an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.30 or better. He is currently seventh in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.43 (76 assists, 23 turnovers).
-Despite coming off the bench in 13-of-15 games this season, junior forward Matt Mitchell is second on the team in scoring (11.7) and is third on the team in rebounding (4.6), while shooting 42.2 percent from three-point range. He is averaging career bests in all three of those categories.
-Senior Yanni Wetzell has reached double figures in nine of his last 12 games after doing so nine times all of last season at Vanderbilt. The transfer is averaging 10.7 points and 6.1 rebounds (second on the team), while shooting 57.8 percent from the field. In his last 12 games he is averaging 11.8 points, 5.9 rebounds and has made 59-of-96 field goal attempts (61.5 percent).
-Junior Jordan Schakel has eight or more points in eight of his last nine games (double figure in six of those contests). Not only is reaching double figures good for Schakel, it's good for the Aztecs. When Schakel scores 10 or more points in his career, SDSU is 17-2 with 10 straight victories. The Aztecs are 12-0 at Viejas when the he reaches double figures. The sharpshooter has made 32-of-70 attempts from bonus distance (45.7 percent).
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