San Diego State got a miracle, but it wasn’t enough to avoid a stunning upset.<\/p>\n
Troy beat the Aztecs 108-107 in double overtime Tuesday night in Viejas Arena.<\/p>\n
Brian Dutcher’s team had an uncharacteristic performance. SDSU turned it over 20 times, missed 14 free throws, got off to a slow start offensively and had trouble containing the Trojans on the other end. <\/p>\n
At one point in the second half Troy made seven straight shots, eventually taking a 12-point lead. <\/p>\n
In his first action of the season Magoon Gwath sparked San Diego State’s comeback. The seven-foot sophomore scored seven straight SDSU points to make it 83-77.<\/p>\n
They faced a four-point deficit with 20 seconds left, when Gwath nailed a three-pointer to get within one.<\/p>\n
He finished with 20 points on 5-for-5 shooting, seven rebounds and three blocks off the bench.<\/p>\n
The Trojans’ lead was back to three with 2.4 seconds left when Miles Byrd hit one of the most improbable shots you’ll see all season.<\/p>\n
The SDSU star caught an inbound, took one dribble and let it fly from a few steps beyond half court. His desperation three dropped, sending the Viejas crowd into a frenzy and pushing the game to overtime tied at 89.<\/p>\n
Freshman Elzie Harrington scored the first four points of the extra period, but once again SDSU trailed late. Reese Dixon-Waters hit a layup in traffic to tie the game at 98 and send it to double OT.<\/p>\n
The Aztecs led by four again, and later held a 107-105 advantage after another Byrd three. But they did not make another basket in the game’s final 90 seconds. <\/p>\n
Theo Seng scored in the post to put Troy up 108-107 in the final minute. Byrd got a good look from three, but missed. The rebound made its way to Sean Newman Jr., whose attempt at the buzzer fell short.<\/p>\n
Byrd finished with 24 points. Thomas Dowd paced the visitors with 25 points. Victor Valdes added 20.<\/p>\n
The loss drops SDSU to 2-1 on the young season. They face No. 7 Michigan Monday in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego State got a miracle, but it wasn’t enough to avoid a stunning upset. Troy beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,103418,1582,276,3549,49193,2247,7264,10055,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-389679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-aztecs","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-state-basketball","14":"tag-san-diego-state-university","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-sdsu","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115575828507056184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}