{"id":220668,"date":"2026-03-15T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220668\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:36:21","slug":"san-diego-state-aztecs-play-in-mwc-tournament-against-the-new-mexico-lobos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220668\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego State Aztecs play in MWC Tournament against the New Mexico Lobos"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Mexico Lobos<\/a> (23-9, 14-7 MWC) vs. San Diego State Aztecs<\/a> (21-10, 15-6 MWC)<\/p>\n

Las Vegas; Saturday, 12 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Aztecs -1.5; over\/under is 150.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: San Diego State plays in the MWC Tournament against New Mexico.<\/p>\n

The Aztecs are 15-6 against MWC opponents and 6-4 in non-conference play. San Diego State is fourth in the MWC with 23.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Miles Byrd<\/a> averaging 4.1.<\/p>\n

The Lobos’ record in MWC play is 14-7. New Mexico has a 3-1 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

San Diego State’s average of 6.8 made 3-pointers per game is 1.5 fewer made shots on average than the 8.3 per game New Mexico gives up. New Mexico has shot at a 46.4% rate from the field this season, 6.3 percentage points greater than the 40.1% shooting opponents of San Diego State have averaged.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. New Mexico won 81-76 in the last matchup on Feb. 28. Tomislav Buljan<\/a> led New Mexico with 24 points, and Byrd led San Diego State with 17 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Reese Dixon-Waters<\/a> is shooting 35.5% from beyond the arc with 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Aztecs, while averaging 13.1 points. BJ Davis<\/a> is shooting 46.2% and averaging 10.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Deyton Albury<\/a> is averaging 11.5 points and 3.1 assists for the Lobos. Jake Hall<\/a> is averaging 18.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Aztecs: 6-4, averaging 77.0 points, 30.1 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 6.5 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Lobos: 5-5, averaging 80.2 points, 31.8 rebounds, 14.6 assists, 7.4 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.6 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Mexico Lobos (23-9, 14-7 MWC) vs. San Diego State Aztecs (21-10, 15-6 MWC) Las Vegas; Saturday, 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[26754,4213,88516,80631,56254,8749,13688,26731,74,76,75,304,99777],"class_list":["post-220668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-bj-davis","tag-college-basketball","tag-deyton-albury","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-hall","tag-miles-byrd","tag-new-mexico-lobos","tag-reese-dixon-waters","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-state-aztecs","tag-tomislav-buljan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220668","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=220668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}