Chris Acker is now in charge of Long Beach State’s program.
Long Beach State head coach Chris Acker reacts on the sideline during the first half of their Big West Conference game against UC Riverside on Thursday night at LBSU’s Walter Pyramid. SDSU leads the all-time series 40-22 and has won eight straight.
The most recent meeting was an 88-76 Aztecs win at Viejas Arena on Nov. 14, 2023.Meet San Diego State’s men’s basketball team ahead of Tuesday’s season openerFormer Aztecs assistant Chris Acker begins his second year as head coach, but with an almost entirely new roster from his first, which didn’t go well. The Beach finished 7-25 and in 10th place in the 11-team Big West at 3-17 with a final NET ranking of 325 . This season promises to be better, with a preseason 210 spot in the Kenpom metric and an eighth-place predicted finish in the Big West coaches poll. The preseason was a mixed bag – a loss against Div. II Point Loma Nazarene and a double-digit win against the WCC’s Loyola Marymount. The lone returnee is Derrick Michael Xzavierro, a 6-10 forward from Indonesia who averaged 5.2 points and 6.8 rebounds. The familiar faces for Aztecs fans don’t stop with Acker. The director of operations is former SDSU grad assistant Ali Tavakol and 6-10 senior forward Demarshay Johnson Jr. , a four-year Aztec player who transferred to the Beach last spring. The offseason acquisitions also include Serbia forward Petar Majstorovi, who played in 31 games off the bench for Syracuse as a freshman, and Shaquil Bender, a senior guard who averaged 11.2 points for Manhattan.‘My biggest problem’: Months into an RV parking crackdown, homeless San Diegans are drowning in ticketsWyoming coach calls out San Diego State’s football attendance issuesSANDAG whistleblower awarded $2.5 million in arbitration caseEncinitas to consider three options for removing controversial Santa Fe Drive changes Entry fees for Mission Bay Park? San Diego’s budget process is starting up. Here’s what council members want. Entry fees for Mission Bay Park? San Diego’s budget process is starting up. Here’s what council members want.
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