{"id":41201,"date":"2025-11-06T19:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41201\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:15:24","slug":"aztecs-kickoff-2025-2026-season-with-77-45-victory-over-long-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41201\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztecs Kickoff 2025-2026 Season with 77-45 Victory Over Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO\u00a0\u2013San Diego State Men\u2019s Basketball entered Viejas Arena and took to Steve Fisher<\/a> Court for their 2025-2026 season opener against Long Beach State. The Aztecs entered the evening with an eight-game winning streak against The Beach and continued their success with a 77-45 victory.<\/p>\n

San Diego State\u2019s first score of the night would come via a baseline drive from Sean Newman Jr.<\/a> who found Miles Heide<\/a> under the basket for a quick two points at the rim.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With roughly five and a half minutes left in the half SDSU\u2019s offense would catch fire with Mountain West Preseason Player of the Year Miles Byrd<\/a> erupting for eight straight points off a contested layup at the rim and a pair of shots behind the arc. The Aztecs closed the first frame of play on a 20-5 run with Byrd leading all players in both points (11) and rebounds (5) at the half.<\/p>\n

Sophomore guard Taj DeGourville<\/a> got things going for the Aztecs in the second half with four straight points within the opening minutes kicking off a balanced scoring effort from coach Brian Dutcher<\/a>\u2019s team. Nine different Aztec\u2019s contributed points across the final 20 minutes of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the game Byrd and freshman Elzie Harrington<\/a> each posted a team high in scoring with 13 points apiece. Byrd was also dynamic on the glass, pulling down a team high eight rebounds.<\/p>\n

The trio of Tae Simmons<\/a>, Miles Heide<\/a>, and DeGourville all chipped in 10 points and Harrington handed out four assists.<\/p>\n

Long Beach was led by Sophomore forward Petar Majstorovic who had a double-double to the tune of 13 points and a game high 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Aztec\u2019s defense once again was stellar forcing 21 turnovers that resulted in 24 points. They also limited The Beach to 32% shooting from the floor and only 21% from three. BJ Davis<\/a> swiped three steals while four different SDSU\u2019 players blocked a shot as well.<\/p>\n

THE NOTE
Elzie Harrington<\/a> and Tae Simmons<\/a> are the first Aztec freshmen to score in double figures in the season opener since Jeremy Hemsley<\/a> scored 20 points against Illinois State on November 13, 2015.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT
San Diego State will be back inside Viejas Arena on November 9, at 2 p.m. to take on the Bengals of Idaho State as they look to secure their second win of the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO\u00a0\u2013San Diego State Men\u2019s Basketball entered Viejas Arena and took to Steve Fisher Court for their 2025-2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[303,131,133,132,300,306,304,301,308,309,302,307,305],"class_list":["post-41201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-aztecs","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","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-sdsu","tag-sdsu-athletics","tag-sdsu-aztecs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41201","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=41201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}