SAN DIEGO - San Diego State returns to Steve Fisher Court on Saturday evening and host the Boise State Broncos in a Mountain West match-up with the tip scheduled for 7 p.m. PT and the game being broadcast on CBS Sports Network.
OFF THE BOUNCE
The Aztecs and Broncos are meeting for the 35th time, with SDSU holding a 20-14 advantage in the series which includes a 10-4 mark in games played in America’s Finest City.
In its last four games, San Diego State has gotten assists on 73-of-124 field goals (58.9 percent).
SDSU ranks No. 3 in the nation with 42.92 bench points per game and has totaled at least 40 bench points in seven of the last eight games and eight of the last 10 games, which included an astounding 69 bench points versus Whittier College (12-22-25).
San Diego State ranks No. 2 in percentage of bench points vs. total points among the top 10 bench scoring teams in the nation. The Aztecs are getting 52.4 percent of its offensive production from its reserves (515-of-983).
San Diego State’s 121 points scored against Whittier are the fourth most in a game in its Division I era (since the start of the 1970-71 season) and the fifth highest point total in program history. The single game record for points by an Aztec team is 140 vs. Chapman on January 15, 1953.
For a program known for its defense, the 2025-26 Aztecs are filling it up on the offensive end of the floor. The team is averaging 81.9 points per game through 12 contests. SDSU’s best scoring team as a Division I program was its 1970-71 team, its first at the Division I level, which averaged 86.9 points per game. San Diego State, in its Division I history, has had five seasons where it’s scored at an 80-plus point per game clip. The program’s best scoring year in the Mountain West era was the 2017-18 squad, Brian Dutcher’s first leading the program, which averaged 77.1 points per game.
On December 30 at San Jose State, San Diego State held San Jose State to just one field goal for the final 8:52 of its game.
In the last six games, the Aztec bench has scored 56.3 percent of the team’s total points (278-of-494) and BJ Davis is responsible for 28.8 percent of those points (80-of-278).
San Diego State is 1-of-3 programs in the nation with at least eight games in which its bench has scored at least 40 points and in which no more than one of those games were against non-Division I opponents.
The Aztecs bench totaled 59 points in its 77-66 win over Utah Valley. The 59 bench points are its highest against a Division I opponent since totaling 57 at Air Force (1-22-20) & the most for a Mountain West team, against a Division I opponent, since December 16, 2018.
San Diego State’s 76.6 percent of bench points-to-total points against Utah Valley is the ninth highest in a Division I game since at least the start of the 1996-97 season.
BJ Davis leads the Aztecs in scoring (12.3 ppg) without the benefit of a start. Among those who have played no more than 245 minutes without a start, Davis ranks No. 1 in the nation in points per game off the bench.
Its game against Oregon at the Players Era Festival marked the second time since the start of the 1999-00 season, that the SDSU was successful on at least 65.0 percent of its field goal attempts against a Division I opponent, bettered only by a 69.6 percent (48-of-69) effort against Campbell on December 12, 2006, in a 119-82 victory. The Aztecs shot over 65.0 percent in each half; 69.0 percent (20-of-29) in the first half and 65.5 percent (19-of-29) in the second half.
Freshman Elzie Harrington earned his first start in his sixth game as an Aztec, which is the fewest games for a freshman to crack the starting line up since Jeremy Hemsley started each of the first 25 games of the 2015-16 season.
Under Brian Dutcher, the Aztecs have held opponents to 60 points or less 121 times and have won 114 of those games (114-7, 94.2 percent). Overall, Dutcher’s Aztecs have held their opponent to 60 or fewer points in 43.5 percent (121-of-278) of the games he has coached.
Brian Dutcher is the only San Diego State head men’s basketball coach to accumulate at least 21 wins in each of his first eight seasons and is averaging 24.8 wins per season coming into the 2025-26 campaign.
Brian Dutcher reached the 200-win plateau with a 73-57 victory against Idaho State (11-9-25), becoming the third Aztec head coach with at least 200 wins. The other two are Aztec Hall of Fame inductees George Ziegenfuss (1949-69) with 316 wins and Steve Fisher (2000-17) with a program record 386.
San Diego State owns a 163-48 record (77.3 percent) since the start of the 2019-20 campaign, which is the FOURTH BEST record in the nation. SDSU trails Gonzaga at 188-31 (85.8 percent), Houston at 195-33 (85.5 percent) and Duke at 171-47 (78.4 percent) and is ahead of the likes of Kansas 165-53 (75.7 percent) and Connecticut 162-53 (75.3 percent).
San Diego State owns the SIXTH BEST record in the nation overall and in home games since the start of the 2005-06 campaign, 511-184 (.735) overall and 284-39 (.879) in contests at Steve Fisher Court.
San Diego State returns 61.9 percent of its minutes from a year ago, according to T-Rank, and those are the second most returning minutes in the nation among teams Torvik ranks in his top 50, behind Purdue (69.7 percent).