Bears Look For A Streak Against the Aztecs

GAME DAY NOTES: vs. San Diego State

GAME DETAILS

• Date: Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
  
• Tip: 7:05 p.m. (MT)
  
• Location: Greeley, Colo.
  
• Venue: Butler-Hancock
  
• Promotions: None
  
• Television: BigSkyTV.org
  
• Radio: Bears Radio Network
  1310 KFKA (Greeley)
  
• Talent: Troy Coverdale
  
• Live stats: none
  
• Web stream: 1310KFKA.com
  
• Series: SDSU, 2-1
  
• Last: NC, 62-56 at SDSU (1/9/08)

STORY LINES

• Northern Colorado will look to even its all-time series with San Diego State with a win tonight. The game is the return half of a home-and-home between the Bears and the Aztecs. Northern Colorado won last season at SDSU 62-56.

• San Diego State enters tonight’s game on the heels of a victory in the 2008 Great Alaska Shootout. In the final, the Aztecs defeated Hampton, which defeated Big Sky team Portland State in the semifinal.

• The Bears enter the week first in the Big Sky Conference in scoring offense (78.5) -- after dropping 105 on Texas State last Saturday -- while San Diego State enters the week tied for 10th in the nation in scoring defense (52.7).

• Three Northern Colorado players scored in double figures in the teams’ meeting last year, and all three will be in uniform tonight -- Devon Beitzel (15), Jefferson Mason (14) and Taylor Montgomery (13).

SERIES HISTORY

• These teams have played three times. San Diego State holds a 2-1 advantage, but NC won the last meeting 62-56 in San Diego.

• Northern Colorado and San Diego State first met on Dec. 15, 1962, in Greeley. The Aztecs won 74-73 in overtime.

• The Bears’ victory last year against SDSU ended the Aztecs 13-game homecourt winning streak.

• Two of the teams’ three meetings have been decided six points or less.

ABOUT THE AZTECS

• Aztecs coach Steve Fisher is one of college basketball’s all-time greats. He’s led three teams to the Final Four and has won one national title (Michigan, 1989).

• San Diego State is looking to extend its road/neutral court winning streak to four games for the first time since the beginning of last season.

• Forward Kyle Spain (17.8 ppg/6.0 rbg) is the reigning Mountain West Conference player of the week after leading the Aztecs to the 2008 Great Alaska Shootout championship.