5:35 pm
March 7

Mountain West Tournament: Utah State v. #5 San Diego State

Who will WIN this matchup?

Utah State Aggies (25-8)

#5 San Diego State Aztecs (30-1)

 

Current odds:

Utah State Aggies: (+185)

#5 San Diego State Aztecs: (-235)

 

• The spread for the game is San Diego State by 5 points.

• Star senior guard Sam Merrill recorded 27 points (on 9-of-15 shooting) and seven assists against Wyoming after contributing 29 points on 10-of-15 shooting in a 75-70 quarterfinal victory over New Mexico. Merrill, who averaged 21 points in two regular-season losses to the Aztecs this season, has scored 20 or more points in each of his last five Mountain West tournament appearances, including 24 in the win over San Diego State in last season’s title contest. “We’ll all be good to go for sure,” Merrill said in a postgame news conference of facing the Aztecs again. “If you can’t get yourself physically or emotionally motivated for a championship game against a top-10 team, then you probably don’t deserve to be here.”

• Junior point guard Malachi Flynn is the Mountain West Player of the Year and he looked like it while recording 22 points, five rebounds and five assists in the win over Boise State. But perhaps the most pleasing development was the play of senior guard KJ Feagin, who has been plagued by consistency issues all season, but scored 21 points and made five 3-pointers against the Broncos. “So it’s just that time of the year where every other team is kind of hitting their stride so the ante is getting upped a little bit,” Feagin told reporters after the comeback win. “But we’re resilient and we’re a talented team so we know that we’re going to get everybody’s extra best shot at this point.”

• San Diego State won the two regular-season meetings with Utah State by an average of 10.5 points.

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#5 San Diego State Aztecs
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