San Diego State basketball

Center in Louisville, Ky. The Bluejays end their season in the Elite Eight with a 24-13 record. With the win, San Diego State (31-6) advances to the Final Four ...

This is two games in a row in the last two days that the ball was in his hands at the critical moments. For Coach as well as the student-athletes, this is the first time that San Diego State has ever made it to the Final Four, and it's the first time that the Mountain West has ever been represented. Coach, so in the first half Nathan Mensah was kind of having a little trouble guarding Kalkbrenner, but then in the second half he came out and had one of the best defensive halves that he has had in this tournament. Were you just feeling like if you had the ball and had the chance that you were going to take it, or was it called, or what? Just how much confidence does that give you at this stage of the season that you are able to have those guys come in and you can turn it to just about anybody on your bench as you are heading into the Final Four? After you missed the first one and you are getting ready to shoot the second one, you take a deep breath and exhale, which you don't normally do, I don't think. Coach, before the game we saw you talking to Coach McDermott and embracing before the game started. Not to say it's easy to get there or that we would ever get there, but we're there now, and we're going to go and try to win the thing. This was the most adversity that was -- in my coaching career that was ever thrown at a good team, a team that really had to do special things. Coach, I know that the way that the season went this year, this is obviously not the way that you wanted it to end. Sometimes what you decide to do is right; sometimes what you decide to do is wrong. Just describe to me what was going through your head throughout all of the reviews and all the time you guys spent waiting on the end result.

The San Diego State Aztecs beat the Creighton Blue Jays 57-56 in the Elite 8 of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. With the win in the South Regional Final,...

But, the Aztecs turned the ball over on an in-bounds pass in the backcourt that lead to Creighton bucket and a tie game. The San Diego State Aztecs beat the Creighton Blue Jays 57-56 in the Elite 8 of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. San Diego State opened the 2nd half on a 6-0 run to take a 34-33 lead, their first lead since 5-4.

Miami rallies from a 13-point halftime deficit against Texas, and San Diego State edges Creighton on a free throw with 1.2 seconds left.

With the game tied at 56-all on San Diego State’s final possession, Trammell drove toward the free-throw line, elevated for the shot and was fouled by Creighton’s Ryan Nembhard. Officials reviewed the play and determined that time had expired, and the celebration was on for the Aztecs. “I wasn’t given an explanation other than there was no time on the clock,” Creighton Coach Greg McDermott said. The Longhorns revealed about 90 minutes before tipoff that Dylan Disu, the Big 12 tourney MVP and early star of the NCAA Tournament, would miss the game because of a foot injury. When Rice answered at the other end for Texas, Miller calmly made two go-ahead free throws to begin his late-game parade to the line. Without their 6-foot-9 star, the Longhorns’ deep group of dangerous guards resorted to shots from the perimeter against Miami’s porous defense. “These guys, more than any group I’ve worked with in 32 years of coaching, have really embodied, in terms of staying the course, being a team,” Terry said, choking up so hard on the postgame dais that he could barely speak. After Miami climbed back from a 64-51 deficit with 13:22 to play, the game was tied at 79-all when Norchad Omier was fouled while going for a loose ball. Carr led the Longhorns (29-9) with 17 points, though he was bothered by a hamstring injury late in the game. — On the eve of Miami playing for a place in its first Final Four, the quiet conversation floating through the team hotel did not revolve around all that the Hurricanes had accomplished this season. Miller responded with a perfect performance against second-seeded Texas in the Midwest Region final Sunday. “How hard we fought to come back in this game, especially on a stage like this, it’s an amazing feeling,” said Pack, one of Miami’s newcomers.

The third game of 2023's men's basketball Elite Eight between No. 5 San Diego State and No. 6 Creighton was a thriller through the very end.

Referees had to go old school and manually start the clock. As you'll see below, the ball tipped off of the SDSU and Creighton big men's hands and went back into the air, but the clock remained at 1.2 seconds. Down one with 1.2 seconds to play, Creighton had to inbound from underneath the opposite basket. With only a 2.4-second difference between the shot clock and game clock, Lamont Butler dribbled out the first 24 seconds of the shot clock. Then, the Aztecs inbounded on the sideline with 34.2 to play. There were a number of close calls during the final minute that were pivotal to deciding the game.

No. 5-seed San Diego State put the defensive clamps on No. 6-seed Creighton in the second half, limiting the Bluejays to 27.5 percent shooting, ...

Officials reviewed the play and determined that time had expired, and the celebration was on for the Aztecs. San Diego State proved again that defense matters, especially since the Aztecs also scuffled for points. [Darrion Trammell](/sports/mens-basketball/roster/darrion-trammell/7740) converted a go-ahead free throw after he was fouled on a floater with 1.2 seconds left, and San Diego State muscled its way into its first Final Four, grinding out a 57-56 victory over Creighton on Sunday in the NCAA Tournament's South Region final. With the game tied at 56-all on San Diego State's final possession, Trammell drove toward the free-throw line, elevated for the shot and was fouled by Creighton's Ryan Nembhard. The teams didn't appear to share any hard feelings from last year's meeting. "I wasn't given an explanation other than there was no time on the clock," Creighton coach Greg McDermott said.

San Diego State and Miami clinched the final two victories of the Elite Eight to round out an unlikely Final Four field at the 2023 NCAA Division I men's ...

The No. 5 Miami Hurricanes snagged the last ticket to Houston with an 88-81 triumph over the No. Senior guard Jordan Miller scored a game-high 27 points for the Hurricanes. No. 13 Iona, No. UConn edged No. 8 Memphis, No. Star senior guard Markquis Nowell totaled a game-high 30 points, 12 assists and three rebounds for the Wildcats. 5 Saint Mary's and No. 8 Maryland and No. Florida Atlantic beat No. 9 West Virginia and No.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When he finished cutting down one of the nets at the KFC Yum! Center, Brian Dutcher stretched his arms into the air and fell backwards off ...

“The transfers come in, they have to have a culture to come to. The upcoming national semifinals are the first without a No. “Our culture is set by our four- and five-year players,” Dutcher said Saturday. Now, for a spot in the national championship game, Dutcher and company must take down ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic, which has four transfers averaging more than 15 minutes per game during its unprecedented run to Houston’s NRG Stadium. During a season where parity has reigned supreme, it’s fitting that fifth-seeded San Diego State reached the Final Four with a roster that reflects college basketball’s changing landscape. Center, Brian Dutcher stretched his arms into the air and fell backwards off a ladder in a show of trust.

The San Diego State Aztecs beat the Creighton Blue Jays 57-56 in the Elite 8 of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. With the win in the South Regional Final,...

But, the Aztecs turned the ball over on an in-bounds pass in the backcourt that lead to Creighton bucket and a tie game. The San Diego State Aztecs beat the Creighton Blue Jays 57-56 in the Elite 8 of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Blue Jays biggest lead was 26-18, but Jaedon LeDee, Lamont Butler and Darrion Trammell kept the Aztecs in the game.

Aztecs fans lined up overnight to welcome home the San Diego State University Men's Basketball team, fresh off advancing to the Final Four for the first ...

Take a breath and think about it. There are 363 men's college basketball teams in Division I. Four will play in Houston for the national championship. And San ...

No. 2 Iowa 97, No. 3 LSU 54, No. 3 Ohio State 73, No. 2 Maryland 76, No. 1 Virginia Tech 73, No. 5 Louisville 72, No. 2 Iowa 87, No. 9 Miami 70, No. 3 LSU 66, No. 5 Miami 88, No. 4 UConn 82, No.

This isn't game-changing money we're talking about, but the Pac-12's media rights price point has certainly gone up with the Aztecs being a part of the larger ...

One scenario which has been discussed a lot is the Pac-12 adding San Diego State and SMU. Last but not least: If San Diego State wins its Final Four national semifinal on Saturday against Florida Atlantic, thereby earning a spot in next Monday’s national championship game, does that meaningfully change any parts of this equation? We’re not going to presume that the sequencing of actions is obvious — it isn’t — but what is clear is that San Diego State has given the Pac-12 a more attractive poker chip to use in various negotiations and discussions. If Gonzaga does not reconsider Pac-12 membership as a basketball-only member, expansion would run through schools which would join in both hoops and football. [a school Kliavkoff has visited](https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/2023/02/08/report-pac-12-commish-george-kliavkoff-to-visit-smu/) — for a 13-school basketball conference and a 12-school football conference. If San Diego State is Pac-12 team No.