SAN DIEGO – Behind historic performances from Asia Avinger and Mallory Adams, the Aztec women's basketball team (9-8, 3-3) knocked off Boise State (5-11, 1-4) 80-63.
Avinger had a career-high 30 points on 10-for-12 shooting and was 9-for-10 from the line. She became the first Aztec freshman in the Mountain West era to score 30 or more points and is just the fourth Aztec in the last 20 years to make 10 field goals on 12 or less attempts.
Adams also had a career-high, scoring 25 points while making seven three-pointers, the second-most in school history. Adams, a fourth-year junior, beat the career-high of 21 points that she set last Sunday at New Mexico. Adams has made 16 three-pointers in the last three games.
As a team, SDSU scored a season-high 80 points, tied a season-low with six turnovers and was 19-for-20 from the line, a season-high percentage of 95.0.
Boise State scored the first bucket and then SDSU went on a 7-0 run and held a lead for the remainder of the game. Mallory Adams hit three three-pointers in the first four minutes of the game and the Aztecs hit seven of their first eight shots and ended up shooting 75 percent from the field in the first quarter.
The Broncos hung with SDSU in the first half and only trailed by eight at the halftime break, but the Aztecs began the third quarter on an 8-0 run and the game was never in doubt from that point on.
The Aztecs led by as many as 22 points and the Broncos did go on an 11-0 run in the fourth quarter but never could get their deficit into single digits.
The Aztecs set season-highs for points in the first quarter (25), third quarter (24) and for a game (80).
Boise State had two players in double-digits: Dominique Leonida (11) and Trista Hull (10)
STAT OF THE GAME
The Aztecs were 19-for-20 from the free throw line.
NOTES
*Asia Avinger became the first Aztec freshman to score 30 or more points in a game in the Mountain West era (1999-present).
*Avinger was just the fourth Aztec to make 10 field goals while taking 12 or less shots in the Mountain West era.
*Mallory Adams' seven three-pointers were the second-most in school history.
* This is the first time in the Stacie Terry-Hutson era (9th year) the Aztecs have won back-to-back conference games by 17 points or more.
UP NEXT
The Aztecs play at Nevada (11-4, 3-0) Wednesday evening.
Avinger & Adams Lead SDSU Past Boise St.
