It took a year longer than he expected, but on Monday San Diego State men’s basketball head coach Steve Fisher got his guy. The schools announced earlier this week that Xavier Thames, a point guard who Fisher tried to recruit last year, will transfer to SDSU from Washington State.
The San Diego State men’s basketball team won the Mountain West Conference Tournament. There was music. There were hundreds of fans. There was a trophy. There was even a pair of scissors for cutting down the net. Oh, and there was also a huge price tag — the team’s health.
Nothing makes me happier than watching North Carolina fail. So while seeing the Tar Heels in the NIT while San Diego State is in the Big Dance makes my pants tight, it leaves me feeling a bit empty. Who do I so viciously root against this March? I’ll tell you who: Duke.
I’ll admit it; I’m a football guy. I eat, sleep and breathe pigskin. So every year when this week rolls around, I pretend I know NCAA basketball outside of the Mountain West Conference and inevitably look stupid when it’s all said and done. (I really had Wake Forest and Gonzaga in my Final Four last year.)
Well it looks like I am going to be spending the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament in lovely Providence, R.I. While I am super excited to be covering the San Diego State men’s basketball trip to the NCAA Tournament, I am not excited to be doing it in Peter Griffin’s backyard. Really?
Well, it’s that time of year again. Time to set apart the men from the boys. That’s right folks, it’s Mustache March. One of my roommates told me mine is coming in quite “creeperishly,” while another roommate told me the other day I look like Adolf Hitler. While I can’t fill out a full mustache, I can fill out an NCAA bracket. So heed these words.
LAS VEGAS —- After the pandemonium died down, after the music stopped blaring, after the hundreds of fans cleared the court, San Diego State men’s basketball sixth-year senior guard Kelvin Davis strolled to the postgame press conference. He took three steps up to the podium, pulled out his chair, plopped his 2010 Mountain West Conference Tournament Championship trophy on the table and flashed the media a big smile.
The San Diego State men’s basketball team heads into the Mountain West Conference Tournament tomorrow as a fourth seed and will take on Colorado State at 2:30 p.m. at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
Heading into the final game of the regular season, the San Diego State men’s basketball team had just one goal: Don’t get tripped up by the 9-19 Air Force Falcons. On Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colo., SDSU avoided the trap game and destroyed Air Force, 61-42.
He didn’t play his best game of the season and he certainly didn’t fill out the stat sheet like he would have wanted, but senior guard Kelvin Davis went out on a high note last night at Viejas Arena. The San Diego State men’s basketball team pummeled Colorado State, 68-55, and picked up its 21st victory of the season, sending Davis home with a win on Senior Night.
Kelvin Davis is a jokester. He’s the senior leader of the San Diego State men’s basketball team, but he’s been known to let his teammates have it from time to time. As junior guard D.J. Gay said, “He always has a joke for somebody. Every day it’s something new. Whether it’s talking about somebody being overweight or just talking about something else, he’s always on somebody’s head.”
At the 9:37 mark in the second half of last night’s game, BYU guard Jimmer Fredette drove the lane and got fouled. San Diego State men’s basketball guard Tyrone Shelley tugged on Fredette’s shoulder just before the Cougars’ star threw the ball at the basket. Shelley watched the ball fall through the net, looked over at his bench and pointed his palms toward the sky as if to say, “What more can I do?”
Jimmer Fredette looks like your little brother on the basketball court. He’s 6 feet 2 inches, 195 pounds; he isn’t fast and he’s not super athletic. Yet Fredette, BYU’s junior point guard, leads the Mountain West Conference in points per game (21.5), free throw percentage (.899), 3-point field goal percentage (.488) and is second in the MWC in assists per game (5). So how does he do it?
Junior forward Malcolm Thomas posted a career-high in points. Freshman forward Kawhi Leonard reccorded another double-double. And the San Diego State men's basketball team ended up on top of Utah. It's a situation most SDSU fans and players remember well from the last game against the Utes.
If Ronnie Moss wasn’t a TCU Horned Frog, the San Diego State men’s basketball team would have won last night’s game by 32. Unfortunately for SDSU, Moss is TCU’s point guard. So the Aztecs had to work a little harder for a victory. Despite allowing Moss to score 15 points, SDSU took care of business in Fort Worth, Texas, beating the Horned Frogs, 68-51, at the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.
Billy White grew up in Las Vegas, so he usually plays UNLV harder than he plays most teams anyway. But after hearing pundits doubt the San Diego State men’s basketball team this past week, White wanted to make an even bigger statement against the No. 23 Rebels on Saturday afternoon.
Tyrone Shelley read the message boards once when he was a freshman at Pepperdine. They were brutal. Crass. Downright mean.
He vowed to never read them again.
But a few days ago, he got a text from one of his friends.
“Tyrone, they’re dogging you on the message board,” Shelley said the text read.
So Shelley sat down, cracked open his computer and checked it out.
The last time the San Diego State men’s basketball team played Wyoming, junior forward Billy White sat out with a high ankle sprain and SDSU fell 85-83. This time around, White will play against the Cowboys. But the pain from the ankle injury that shelved him on Jan. 9 still lingers.
D.J. Gay tried his best to get the San Diego State men’s basketball team a win. But even with his heroic efforts, SDSU couldn’t overcome its horrendous free throw shooting on Saturday night and fell 88-86 in overtime to New Mexico at The Pit in Albuquerque, N.M.
Despite abysmal shooting, SDSU edges out Highlanders
Head coach Steve Fisher called it sloppy. Junior forward Billy White said they made too many mistakes. As the cliché goes: It was ugly, but a win is a win.
The San Diego State men’s basketball team had been in a bit of a funk the past few weeks, committing turnovers and boasting small 3-point percentages. So last night against Cal State Fullerton, SDSU turned to Mr. Basketball to get the team out of its rut.
There’s a secret to the San Diego State men’s basketball team and it just might be located on page 77 of the 2009-10 SDSU Media Guide.
On sophomore forward Tim Shelton’s player bio page, there’s a line just beneath his name that reads, “Makes music with junior Brian Carlwell.”
Shelley nets 17 points while Leonard hauls in nine rebounds
After losing two of its first three road games this season — and looking awful doing so — the San Diego State men’s basketball team can suddenly do no wrong when it’s away from Viejas Arena.
It took two full halves and 4:56 of overtime, but the San Diego State men’s basketball fans could finally let the University of San Diego have it. With the lead firmly in hand, SDSU’s crowd at the Jenny Craig Pavilion roared, “This is our house!” serenading an Aztec squad that had just defeated USD, 69-62 in overtime.
It’s hard to miss San Diego State men’s basketball junior Billy White on SDSU’s campus. The 6-foot-8-inch, 235-pound power forward tends to stand out. So on University of San Diego game week, he hears a lot of chatter from his fellow Aztec students about the big rivalry game.
It’s not often that a college basketball game is over in the first five minutes, but on Saturday, when the San Diego State men’s basketball team faced off against Northern Arizona, by the time five minutes had elapsed, SDSU was leading 13-2 and it was clear that NAU was severely outmatched.
The jerseys still say San Diego State and the colors are still red, white and black. But the faces and bodies that used to occupy them are now drastically different. There’s no more Richie Williams, no more Lorrenzo Wade, no more Kyle Spain, no more Ryan Amoroso and no more combined 42.8 points per game from the four departed starters.
While the San Diego State men’s basketball team is full of explosive talent and athleticism, it was the solid fundamentals of rebounding and late free throws that gave SDSU the win last night over Fresno State, 62-58.
Hello SDSU! It has been a while and a new season is upon us. Unfortunately, we had to part ways, but fortunately for you and San Diego as a whole, the Aztecs are new and improved!
After the San Diego State men’s basketball team took out UC San Diego on Saturday, junior guard D.J. Gay said he was anxious and excited to see how a Saint Mary’s team minus superstar guard Patrick Mills, who left for the NBA, would look.
Basketball is a game of runs, and nobody knows that better than 11-year San Diego State men’s basketball head coach Steve Fisher.
It was a bittersweet off-season for the San Diego State men’s basketball team.
While SDSU lost a slew of graduating seniors — including second team All-Mountain West Conference forwards Kyle Spain and Lorrenzo Wade as well as MWC all-defensive team guard Richie Williams — it welcomed its most celebrated recruiting class in program history.
Take a step back in time with San Diego State men’s basketball junior forward Billy White. He’s around 8 years old and is about 5 feet 6 inches and lives in an apartment complex several miles from the Las Vegas Strip. He knows he wants to play basketball and he’s ready to get in a game, but there’s just one problem: There’s only one court in the area.
SDSU struggles to find rhythm with three potential starters out
There was no Billy White, no Malcolm Thomas, no Tim Shelton and there was definitely no rhythm.
State-of-the-art 26-foot by 15-foot LED scoreboard added to Viejas Arena
San Diego State men’s basketball sophomore forward Tim Shelton has never been a wristband- or headband-wearing guy. He’s always preferred a more humble basketball game attire.
But now that SDSU’s Viejas Arena has a new, state-of-the-art scoreboard — which will make Aztec players more visible than ever – Shelton has had to rethink some parts of his on-court style.
“Maybe I’ll make sure I shave a little bit more,” Shelton joked.
Lorrenzo Wade knows fight. In fact, fight and Wade go back quite a long way.
A burglary accusation once landed him a nine-game suspension. A shoulder injury once caused him to miss a key Mountain West Conference game. A nasty bout with the flu once forced him out of an MWC matchup with Air Force. But Wade partnered with fight, and came through it all.
So now, nearly six months after he played his last game for the San Diego State men’s basketball team, did he really think fight would leave his side just because the National Basketball Association came into his life?
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