The San Diego State Aztecs, a young team with an away-game advantage, will face challenging road games against Boise State and New Mexico.
BOISE, Idaho – The problem with leading by 18 points at home against Utah State last weekend – and by seven with 90 seconds to go –Now San Diego State’s basketball team goes to Boise State on Saturday (1 p.m.
PST, CBS) for the first, true hostile road environment … with a young team … in a place where it has lost six of the last seven … against a team picked to win the conference … with an afternoon tip that doesn’t afford time for a morning shootaround in an arena where the current rotation has played a total of 20 career minutes. The following Saturday, they’re at New Mexico — picked second in the preseason media poll — for the first altitude game by a roster that largely has never played in it. Don’t pull an upset in either of those and, even if they beat Air Force at home on Wednesday, the no-longer-ranked Aztecs (8-3, 1-1) are looking at 2-3 start in the Mountain West and a massive one to climb in the conference race.“I’m excited to get to these environments where it’s a little bit more hostile on the road and see what type of team we are,” he continued. “As a team, this group of guys really likes coming together, really likes away situations.” The statistics, as counterintuitive as that might sound for a young, inexperienced group of guys, echo that. Through the season’s first two months, they’ve been notably better away from Viejas Arena than inside it. “It’s an interesting question,” coach Brian Dutcher said. “I don’t know why that is. We’re still trying to figure things out. It’s a young team. Where we settle at home and road, we’ll find out as the season goes on.” The opposite was true last season with a veteran team that started five seniors. They nearly completed the first undefeated home season in Division I program history before losing — to (ahem) Boise State — in the season finale at Viejas Arena. On the road, they were more mortal, finishing 6-8 overall and 3-6 in the Mountain Wes
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