San Diego State squandered a 24-point lead, but avoided a massive letdown Saturday night at Viejas Arena.<\/p>\n
Brian Dutcher’s team led Boise State by 24 at one point in the first half, and went to the locker room up 50-29. What looked like a statement win turned into one of the most thrilling games you’ll see this college basketball season.<\/p>\n
Javan Buchanan scored 29 to help the Broncos erase the Aztecs’ lead. BJ Davis – a 91.5 percent free throw shooter – went to the line up two with 18 seconds left in regulation. The junior guard missed the front end of a one-and-one, paving the way for a Drew Fielder game-tying layup on the other end.<\/p>\n
Davis missed a potential game-winning layup, which led to a transition opportunity for Dylan Andrews. The Boise State guard pulled up from the free throw line at the buzzer and watched his shot rattle out – sending the teams to overtime tied at 79.<\/p>\n
With 18 seconds left in OT the Aztecs trailed by six and looked finished. Freshman point guard Elzie Harrington hit a three-pointer to make it a one possession game with 10 seconds left. On the ensuing inbound Davis stole RJ Keene II’s pass near midcourt. Davis held for the last shot and drilled a 25-footer to tie the game and force a second OT even at 93.<\/p>\n
The teams ultimately went to triple overtime. San Diego State trailed by five until Jeremiah Oden knocked down a three-pointer and Harrington got even with a midrange pullup. Miles Heide scored four unanswered at one point for SDSU.<\/p>\n
The Aztecs took the lead at the free throw line. They led 110-107 when Andrew Meadows missed an off balance three point attempt that would have tied the game.<\/p>\n
Davis finished with 22 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and four steals off the bench. Harrington added a career high 20.<\/p>\n
San Diego State’s thrilling win gets them to 9-4 and keeps the Aztecs perfect in the early stages of Mountain West play at 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego State squandered a 24-point lead, but avoided a massive letdown Saturday night at Viejas Arena. Brian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[303,74,76,75,6127,301,302],"class_list":["post-119599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-aztecs","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-state-basketball","tag-san-diego-state-university","tag-sdsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}