SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2013 The San Diego State women\u2019s basketball team (18-4, 12-1) cruised to an 81-52 win at San Jose State (3-21, 1-12) Saturday afternoon. The Aztecs shot 54 percent from the floor, dished out 18 assists and never trailed in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been the standard in the league through the first half, and we wanted to get back to that,\u201d Head coach Stacie Terry-Hutson<\/a> said, referring to them coming off their first conference loss of the year. \u201cWe did a good job of that today and our bench stepped up.\u201d<\/p>\n Four Aztecs scored in double-digits, led by Kennedy Lee<\/a>\u2019s 16 points. Naomi Panganiban<\/a> scored 13 on an efficient 5-for-7 shooting and dished out four assists. Nat Martinez<\/a>, who is from nearby San Leandro and was playing in front of friends and family, had 12 points and four assists. Bailey Barnhard<\/a> added 11 points with a team-high six rebounds. SDSU is now 32-2 since the beginning of last year when three or more players score 10+ points.<\/p>\n The Aztecs began the game on a 13-1 run and forced the Spartans to miss their first seven shots. They would lead by 11 points at the end of the first quarter and maintained a double-digit lead for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n SDSU was especially efficient in the second half, shooting 60% from the field, 55% from three and outscored the Spartans 42-30. 13 of the Aztecs\u2019 18 assists came in the second half.<\/p>\n The Aztecs outrebounded SJSU 36-29 and outscored them 36-22 in the paint.<\/p>\n STAT OF THE GAME THE NOTE I THE NOTE II UP NEXT
SDSU shot 60% from the field in the second half and had assists on 13 of their 18 field goals.<\/p>\n
SDSU has won 14 of their last 15 games and 19 of 20 against Mountain West opponents.<\/p>\n
SDSU swept San Jose State, winning their games by 28 and 29 points. The Aztecs are 32-11 (.744) all-time vs. the Spartans, their highest winning percentage against any Mountain West team.<\/p>\n
The Aztecs host Colorado State Wednesday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2013 The San Diego State women\u2019s basketball team (18-4, 12-1) cruised to an 81-52 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[303,300,306,304,301,308,309,88,90,89,302,307,305],"class_list":["post-168972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-aztecs","tag-san-diego-state","tag-san-diego-state-athletics","tag-san-diego-state-aztecs","tag-san-diego-state-university","tag-san-diego-state-university-athletics","tag-san-diego-state-university-aztecs","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sdsu","tag-sdsu-athletics","tag-sdsu-aztecs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168972","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=168972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}