Bradley scores 17, No. 23 San Diego State beats Nevada 74-65

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Matt Bradley had 17 factors and 10 rebounds and Lamont Butler added 15 factors for No. 23 San Diego State, which beat Nevada 74-65 Tuesday night time to take sole possession of first place within the Mountain West Convention.

“We’ve received to carry onto it,” Bradley stated. “We now have a giant goal on our again now.”

The Aztecs (13-3, 4-0 MWC) dominated on each ends of Steve Fisher Courtroom in a showdown between the final two undefeated groups within the convention to increase their profitable streak to 6 video games. Keshad Johnson added 11 factors for SDSU, which has crushed Nevada 9 straight instances.

Nick Davidson had 17, Kenan Blackshear 12 and Jarod Lucas 11 or Nevada (14-4, 4-1), whose six-game profitable streak was snapped.

SDSU led 65-43 with 9:10 left earlier than Nevada started urgent within the closing minutes, forcing the Aztecs into turnovers and unhealthy photographs and permitting the near single digits. SDSU didn’t make a discipline aim within the closing 5:09.

“That was an important efficiency,” coach Brian Dutcher stated. “I thanked them after the sport for the final three minutes. I stated in the event that they’d have performed 40 minutes like they did the entire recreation, then they wouldn’t want any teaching. I thanked them as a result of now I get to teach them a bit bit once more. We’ll work on the press offense.

“We now have to change into higher playmakers after we get the ball with area that we’ve got and know what we’re doing, and we’ll,” Dutcher stated. “I’m not overly involved with it. The remainder of the sport was magnificent. The primary half was most likely nearly as good as we performed all 12 months.”

The Aztecs marked their return to The AP High 25 by dominating from the opening minute. Keshad Johnson had a steal and scored on an alley-oop slam dunk on a go from Lamont Butler. Johnson and Butler hit consecutive 3-pointers to provide the Aztecs a 10-0 lead and power Wolf Pack coach Steve Alford to take a timeout.

Johnson had a steal and slam dunk for a 42-23 lead late within the first half. It was 44-27 at halftime.

SDSU shot 50% whereas holding Nevada to 39.7%. The Aztecs outrebounded Nevada 33-29 and made 8 of 21 3-pointers.

BIG PICTURE

Nevada: The Wolf Pack dedicated three early turnovers in falling behind 10-0 and by no means recovered. That they had six turnovers whole within the first half and, though they loved a top benefit, had been outrebounded 19-13.

San Diego State: The Aztecs improved to 11-0 at house towards Nevada within the MWC period and to 13-1 all-time at house towards the Wolf Pack.

UP NEXT

Nevada hosts Utah State on Friday night time.

San Diego State hosts New Mexico on Saturday night time.

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