SAN DIEGO – For the third year in a row, and the second straight in Reno, the San Diego State men's basketball team wraps up regular season play with a match-up against the Nevada Wolf Pack. The teams are set to meet on Saturday with tip scheduled for 5 p.m. PT.
OFF THE TOP (through games of Feb. 26)
-San Diego State looks to post the best league record in Mountain West Conference history on Saturday when the Aztecs travel to Reno to face Nevada in the regular-season finale.
-San Diego State, currently 16-1 in league play, is looking to eclipse the 2004-05 Utah squad that finished the season 13-1 for top Mountain West Conference record.
-To do that, the Aztecs will look to snap Nevada's 10-game homecourt win streak and 20-game conference homecourt win streak dating back to Feb. 7, 2018.
-San Diego State's 27-1 record is tied with the 2010-11 team for best record after 28 games. That season, the Aztecs lost the 29th game of the season.
-San Diego State, which spent 39 days (includes part of days) as the nation's only undefeated team after Auburn loss on Jan. 15, is the only team in the country with only one loss (Baylor, Dayton and Gonzaga all have two losses).
-San Diego State has won consecutive meetings against the Wolf Pack and is going for a sweep of the season series for the first time since 2016. The Aztecs have handed Nevada five of its last 18 overall losses.
-San Diego State has clinched its seventh regular-season MW title this season (2006, 2011*, 2012*, 2014, 2015*, 2016 and 2020). and its 12th overall Mountain West championship. SDSU will be the top seed at the Mountain West tourney next week. * - indicates shared title
-San Diego State fell from a school-record tying No. 4 in the AP Poll to No. 5 this week. The Aztecs are in the AP top 5 for a school-record six straight weeks and has been in the AP top 10 for eight consecutive weeks.
Winning streaks that are on the line Saturday:
Streak No. School Active DI
Road Win Streak 11 record longest active win streak nationally (2nd: Baylor and Stephen F. Austin, 9)
Road/Neutral Win Streak 13 record longest active win streak nationally
CHAMPIONS (through games of Feb. 26)
-San Diego State clinched the outright regular-season title on Feb. 11. The Aztecs became the first team in the nation to clinch its regular-season title this season and became the first team in the nation to clinch its outright regular-season title with four games remaining since Steph Curry's Davidson team in 2007-08.
-San Diego State became the fourth team this century to clinch a regular season outright championship with four games to play.
Team Year Conference Gms. Remaining when Clinched Final Record NCAA Result
San Diego State 2019-20 Mountain West 4
Davidson 2007-08 Southern 4 29-7 Elite Eight
Stanford 2003-04 Pac-10 4 30-2 Second Round
Cincinnati 1999-00 Conference USA 4 29-4 Second Round
-San Diego State is looking to finish league play with just one loss and post the best record in Mountain West Conference history.
Rk. Team Season MW Record Pct. Top Scorers
1. San Diego State 2019-20 16-1 .941 Malachi Flynn (16.9), Matt Mitchell (12.5), Yanni Wetzell (11.7)
2. Utah 2004-05 13-1 .929 Andrew Bogut (20.4), Marc Jackson (10.7)
3. San Diego State 2015-16 16-2 .889 Trey Kell (12.6), Jeremy Hemsley (12.0), W. Shepard (11.3)
San Diego State 2013-14 16-2 .889 Xavier Thames (17.6), Winston Shepard (11.6)
-San Diego State's 15-0 conference record was the best start for a Mountain West team in the history of the league.
-The 2020 tournament will mark the fifth time (2006, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2020) in the Mountain West era that the Aztecs have been the top seed. SDSU owns a 9-3 record as a top seed, advancing to the championship game on all four occasions and winning the title in 2006.
ROAD WARRIORS (through games of Feb. 26)
-San Diego State owns the nations longest road winning streak (11, dates back to last season) and road/neutral streak (13) in the nation.
-San Diego State is the only team not to drop a road/neutral site game this season (13-0).
-The Aztecs 13 road/neutral road wins are tied for the most in the nation (Hofstra, 13).
-San Diego State's 10-0 road record is the best in the nation and its 10 true road wins are tied for the fourth most in the nation (East Tennessee State 11-3, Hofstra 11-4, Stephen F. Austin 11-2 and Vermont 11-3).
-In road/neutral games this season, San Diego State leads the nation in scoring margin (+16.5), field goal percentage differential (+11.4), and is second in three-point field goal percentage differential (11.6). On offense, the Aztecs are 2nd in field goal percentage (50.6), 3rd in free throw percentage (79.6), 7th in three-point field goal percentage (40.1). While on defense SDSU ranks 5th in scoring (60.2), 9th in three-point field goal percentage (28.4) and 11th in field goal percentage (39.1).
-San Diego State is 9-0 in NET Quadrant 1 and 2 games. Eight of those nine games have come away from home.
HOME COOKING (through games of Feb. 26)
-San Diego State ended the season 14-1 with an average scoring margin of +16.0. Of the 15 home games, 12 were been decided by at least nine points.
-The Aztecs 13-game homecourt win streak, snapped last Saturday, was tied for the eighth-longest in school history and longest since the school-record 29-game win streak from Nov. 20, 2013 and ended Feb. 28, 2015.
-San Diego State is 21-2 in its last 23 home games dating back to Jan. 1, 2019.
-The Aztecs are 22-2 in its 24 Mountain West Conference home games since Jan. 24, 2018.
-San Diego State has never had an undefeated home season as a Division I program. The last time the Aztecs made it through the home portion of the schedule unscathed was 1966-67. That season, San Diego State went 16-0 at home en route to a 24-5 record. In the Division I era, SDSU has ended the home portion of its schedule with a single loss on seven occasions (1977-78, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2019-20).
THE HISTORIC START (through games of Feb. 26)
-San Diego State is the fourth team to open a season 26-0 since the start of the 2010-11 campaign. Of the previous three teams, two made the Final Four.
Best Start To A Season (since 2010-11) Season Wins To Open Season Tournament Result Final Record
1. Kentucky 2014-15 38 Final Four 38-1
2. Wichita State 2013-14 35 Round of 32 35-1
3. Gonzaga 2016-17 29 National Runner-Up 37-2
4. San Diego State 2019-20 26
5. Syracuse 2013-14 25 Round of 32 28-6
-SDSU's 26-game unbeaten streak to open the season was the longest by an NCAA team since Gonzaga started the 2016-17 campaign 29-0 (advanced to the national championship game).
-The final unbeaten team last season (2018-19) was Virginia. The Cavilers opened 16-0 and won the national championship.
-How hard is it to win 26 games in a row? Of the active 353 Division I head coaches; Brian Dutcher has become just the eighth coach with a win streak of at least 26 games.
Active DI Coaches w/26+ Game Win Streak Streak(s)
1. John Calipari, Memphis-Kentucky 38, 27, 26, 26
2. Gregg Marshall, Wichita State 35
3. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 32
4. Bruce Weber, Illinois 29
Brad Underwood, Stephen F. Austin 29
6. Mark Few, Gonzaga 29
7. Brian Dutcher, San Diego State 26
Tubby Smith, Kentucky 26
-San Diego State's 26-0 record is the best start in school history, eclipsing the 20-0 mark set by the 2010-11 SDSU squad (Kawhi Leonard's sophomore, and final, season with the Aztecs).
SDSU CLIFF NOTES (through games of Feb. 26)
-San Diego State's metrics continue to pace at an elite level. As of Thursday, The Aztecs are 5th in NET (spent a national-best 45 non-consecutive days at No. 1 this season), 4th in strength of record, 4th in KenPom, 4th in BPI and 9th in Sagarin.
-The NCAA committee listed San Diego State as the fourth overall seed and placed the Aztecs as the No. 1-seed in the East Region on Feb. 8 when they released the top 16 teams in the nation at that moment in time.
-San Diego State is at No. 5 in the AP Poll this week. Now nationally ranked for a 12th-straight week, this is the fourth time the team has been in this ranking spot (previously Jan. 27 through Feb. 10, 2014).
-Prior to this season, the Aztecs had been ranked in the AP top-5 a total of four weeks in school history. San Diego State spent each of the previous five weeks ranked No. 4 and combined with this week's No. 5 ranking, continues to surpass the previous combined total prior to this season.
-San Diego State is enjoying its 78th 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 78 weeks in the top 25 are the 21st most nationally.
-San Diego State finds itself ranked among the nation's elite in several statistical categories, including 2nd in scoring margin (+16.5), 2nd in three-point field goal percentage differential (+9.7), 3rd in scoring defense (58.6), 5th in three-point field goal defense (28.3), 5th in field goal percentage differential (+8.9), 8th in field goal percentage defense (38.0), 10th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.38), 12th in three-point field goal percentage (38.2) and 17th in turnovers per game (10.9).
-San Diego State has four players averaging 10 points or more and six players averaging 6.9 points or more. Six Aztec players have scored 18 or more points in a game this season.
-San Diego State leads the Mountain West Conference in many team stats, including scoring margin (+16.50), scoring defense (58.57), field goal percentage defense (38.0), turnover margin (+3.36) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.38), and three-point field goal percentage defense (28.3).
-San Diego State is currently ranked 4th in KenPom and has top 15 efficiency ratings on both offense (13th) and defense (5th). The Aztecs join Duke, Kansas and Gonzaga as the only teams in the nation that rank in the top 15
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