For the only time in the 2025-26 regular season, San Diego State and Fresno State meet on Saturday evening at Steve Fisher Court with the tip scheduled for 8 p.m. PT.
OFF THE BOUNCE
The Aztecs and Bulldogs are meeting for the 131st time, the most frequent opponent in program history, with SDSU holding a 74-56 advantage in the series which includes a 43-20 mark in America’s Finest City and a 10-5 mark in games played at Viejas Arena.
The Aztecs’ 43 wins on their home floor versus Fresno State are their most against a Mountain West program in its history and its 12 game-win streak against the Bulldogs are currently their third longest among league members.
SDSU has shot 50-plus percent in each of its last four games, all victories, and is 72-2 in its last 74 games when its shoots at least 50 percent from the field.
SDSU has started its conference season 4-0 for the third time in Brian Dutcher’s nine seasons and as a team, it is the sixth time in the last 17 years the program has gotten off to a 4-0 start in Mountain West play.
San Diego State has won its last seven games against non-AP ranked teams.
With its 110-107 triple-overtime win against Boise State, the Aztecs moved to 1-2 all-time in triple overtime games playing its first such contest since Dec. 6, 2000, vs. UC Santa Barbara.
SDSU ranks No. 2 in the nation with 42.7 bench points per game and has totaled at least 40 bench points in eight of the last 10 and nine of the last 12 games, which included an astounding 69 bench points versus Whittier College (12-22-25).
The 217 combined points in the Boise State game (110-107) are tied for the fourth most in a game in SDSU’s DI history and most since a 226-point game on Feb. 12, 1971 (San Diego State beat U.S. International, 123-103).
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 51.3 percent of its offensive production from its reserves (598-of-1,166).
The Aztecs bench is out scoring its opponent’s reserves by 22.9 points per game. SDSU’s bench has scored 598 points through 14 games, an average of 42.7 per game, compared to its oppositions 277 points, an average of 19.8.
BJ Davis leads the Aztecs in scoring (12.9 ppg) without the benefit of a start. Among those who have played no more than 317 minutes without a start, Davis ranks No. 1 in the nation in points per game off the bench.
BJ Davis (22 pts, 11 rebs, 6 assts, 4 stls) became the second Aztec since at least the 1996-97 season to total at least 20 pts, 10 rebs, 5 assts & 4 stls in the same game (also Jamaal Franklin vs. Redlands on Dec. 30, 2011) and the first to do it against a Division I opponent.
SDSU shot 65.5 percent from the floor in the first half vs. Boise State. It was the second time this season (also vs. Oregon - 69.0 percent) it has shot at least that high a percentage in the opening 20 minutes and the sixth time in the Mountain West era.
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 83.3 points per game through 14 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.
In the last eight games, the Aztec bench has scored 53.3 percent of the team’s total points (361-of-677) and BJ Davis is responsible for 31.0 percent of those points (112-of-361).
San Diego State is 1-of-3 programs in the nation with at least nine 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.
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 43.2 percent (121-of-280) 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 165-48 record (77.5 percent) since the start of the 2019-20 campaign, which is the FOURTH BEST record in the nation. SDSU trails Gonzaga at 191-31 (86.0 percent), Houston at 197-33 (85.7 percent) and Duke at 173-47 (78.6 percent) and is ahead of the likes of Connecticut 164-53 (75.5 percent) and Kansas 166-54 (75.5 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, 513-184 (.736) overall & 285-39 (.880) in contests at Steve Fisher Court, plus is No. 11 in road contests 140-96 (.593).
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).