After getting dropped from the rankings, San Diego State races to a 19-point lead in the first half and wins 88-54 behind big games from its newcomers
There’s an apocryphal expression in basketball when you’re mired in a shooting slump: “Shoot your way out of it.”
Their next game against an opponent in the top 200 in the major metrics is New Year’s Eve at UNLV, which is 10-0 and received more votes in the latest AP poll. But it doesn’t matter if you’re missing shots if you rebound them, and SDSU was. By halftime, they had a 7-1 advantage in offensive boards and 12-0 in second-chance points.
The Aztecs would have had more than 39 at halftime had they not gone scoreless for the final four minutes while the Owls, who lost by only 10 at Florida earlier this season and had won two straight road games, closed to 14. But a 9-0 run to open the second half ended any designs of a comeback, and soon the margin was in the 30s. And then 40.
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