{"id":406003,"date":"2025-11-26T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406003\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:00:15","slug":"aztecs-fly-past-oregon-97-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406003\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztecs Fly Past Oregon 97-80"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 San Diego State\u2019s offense exploded for 97 points, led by Reese Dixon-Waters<\/a> and BJ Davis<\/a>, who combined for 43 points, as it downed Oregon 97-80 in the Players Era Festival on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

San Diego State (3-2) will finish its stay in Las Vegas on Wednesday night against the Baylor Bears at 7:30 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n

Oregon (4-2) will look to bounce back against the Creighton Bluejays at 11 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The teams battled back and forth early, leading to a 15-15 score with 12 minutes remaining in the first half. SDSU rattled off the next 12 points to pull ahead 27-15, a lead it would not relinquish the remainder of the night. Davis accounted for the first eight points of the run, making two free throws before back-to-back three-pointers.<\/p>\n

The lead held constant between seven and 12 points for the rest of the half as the Aztecs brought a ten-point lead into the locker room at halftime.<\/p>\n

After Oregon cut the lead to six at 17:58, the Aztecs scored the next eight points to go back up 14 with 16 minutes left. Dixon-Waters started the stretch with a three before a Davis free throw and layups from Miles Heide<\/a> and Jeremiah Oden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SDSU\u2019s lead was again at 14 with eight and a half minutes to go in the game and Elzie Harrington<\/a> connected from beyond the arc, Dixon-Waters made a jumper, and Oden drained a pair of free throws to put the Aztecs up 21, their largest lead of the night so far.<\/p>\n

At the final media timeout, the lead was back down to 18, but Magoon Gwath<\/a> made a layup and Heide and Davis had consecutive dunks to push the lead back out to 24, the largest of the night.<\/p>\n

Oregon finished the contest on a run, but it was too little, too late as San Diego State earned the 97-80 win.<\/p>\n

Magoon Gwath<\/a> scored 13 points and pulled down six rebounds while logging four blocks and two steals on defense. Freshman Elzie Harrington<\/a> scored in double figures for the second straight night, pouring in 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting. Harrington was one of four Aztecs with four assists, along with Davis and Taj DeGourville<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ducks were led by Jackson Shelstad (21 points), Kwame Evans Jr. (16 points, five rebounds, five assists) and Nate Bittle (13 points).<\/p>\n

San Diego State shot better from the field (67.2%-40.3%), beyond the arc (47.7%-42.9%) and the free throw line (88.9%-81.2%). SDSU won the rebounding battle (34-26) and scored more points in the paint (36-22), on fast breaks (20-8) and off the bench (47-18).<\/p>\n

THE STAT I<\/strong>
San Diego State scored its most points in regulation against a DI opponent since scoring 98 points against Wyoming on January 30, 2021.<\/p>\n

THE STAT II<\/strong>
San Diego State improved to 21-5 in its last 26 games when wearing red jerseys, going back to the start of the 2010-11 season.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/strong>
San Diego State wraps up the Players Era Festival at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday night against Baylor. The game will be televised on TruTV and broadcast on San Diego Sports 760.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2013 San Diego State\u2019s offense exploded for 97 points, led by Reese Dixon-Waters and BJ Davis, who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":406004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,103418,1582,276,3549,3890,134583,13875,2247,134585,134586,7264,10055,134584,18257,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-406003","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","14":"tag-san-diego-state-athletics","15":"tag-san-diego-state-aztecs","16":"tag-san-diego-state-university","17":"tag-san-diego-state-university-athletics","18":"tag-san-diego-state-university-aztecs","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-sdsu","21":"tag-sdsu-athletics","22":"tag-sdsu-aztecs","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115616128959028748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406003","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=406003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}