San Diego State Aztecs men’s basketball

The San Diego State Aztecs men’s basketball team is the college basketball program representing San Diego State University in San Diego, California. The Aztecs compete in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) of NCAA Division I and are currently coached by Brian Dutcher. They play their home games at Viejas Arena on SDSU’s campus as well as an occasional game at Petco Park, located downtown.

San Diego State has a long history of success; they have made 16 appearances in the NCAA Tournament throughout its history with six Sweet Sixteen berths to date, most recently making it to that stage for back-to-back seasons during 2010–11 and 2011–12 with Steve Fisher leading them both times before retiring from coaching after 18 years there. Since then under current head coach Brian Dutcher from 2017 onward who took over following his two decades working alongside Fisher, he led them to four consecutive MWC regular season titles (2018–2021), three conference tournament championships (2019 – 2021) including their first outright title since 2011 while also reaching their highest national rankings ever when they were briefly ranked #4 nationally late January 2020 prior to suffering a loss dropping down out of top 10 shortly afterwards despite going undefeated up until that point that season only losing twice more all year finishing 30-2 overall winning another league crown plus advancing further into March Madness than any other previous time falling just short within Elite Eight round becoming one win away from Final Four berth instead getting upset by eventual National Champion UCONN Huskies ending campaign 31 wins overall tying school record set previously decade earlier under Coach Fisher’s leadership eventually resulting him get enshrined into Basketball Hall Of Fame Class 2021 along with several former players having starred here receiving retire jerseys due credit for helping build this growing legacy upon which future generations will try continue where left off carrying torch forward even farther whenever next opportunity arises hopefully soon come again real soon….