The Aztecs will face the Bluejays in each team’s first appearance in the Elite Eight – with both hoping to book its first trip to the Final Four. It’s also a rematch of last year’s first round meeting. 🏀
San Diego State and Creighton might not be familiar with this stage, but what they do know quite well is one another.
In what turned out to be their 2022 finale, SDSU gave up a 14-point first half lead and surrendered a Creighton run that forced overtime. The Jays outlasted the Aztecs in the extra session, winning 72-69. It was a loss that the Aztecs admittedly used as motivation this season, and will certainly add some fuel to tomorrow’s showdown.
Their recent history also includes a lopsided 83-52 SDSU win, which came in the early stages of the Aztecs’ historic 26-0 start. That season ended with one of the great what-ifs in program history, when COVID-19 wiped out an NCAA Tournament that would have featured Brian Dutcher’s program as a one or two seed.
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