Colorado State upends No. 12 San Diego State

The Aztecs got beat. End of story.

No, Fisher didn’t consider his team’s transport problems progressing in a week had anything to do with their sharpened woes in a 77-60 detriment to Colorado State on Saturday. The 12th-ranked Aztecs simply couldn’t find a operation as their 11-game winning strain came to a halt.

• BOX SCORE: Colorado St. 77, San Diego St. 60

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San Diego State (18-3, 4-1 Mountain West) shot only 31 percent opposite a Rams (14-6, 3-2), maybe due in partial to a strenuous roving adventures. Because of complicated snow, it took 20 hours to arrive in Laramie, Wyo., for a diversion opposite a Cowboys.

After violence Wyoming 52-42 on Tuesday, a Aztecs franchised a moody and flew behind home, not wanting to skip any some-more category time than necessary. Then they returned to a Front Range to face Colorado State.

Was it probable they were drained? Fisher wouldn’t even perform that notion.

“I hatred it when people try to contend we didn’t do this or we didn’t do that,” he said. “We got kick by a improved basketball group today. we don’t consider they’re a improved basketball team, though they were today. They kick us.”

Colorado State fans packaged into Moby Arena interjection to a guarantee of giveaway pizza and T-shirts. They were treated to utterly a show, too.

Wes Eikmeier scored 19 points and Colorado State done all 23 of a giveaway throws for a initial home win over a ranked group in some-more than 8 years.

Will Bell total 17 points and a Rams undone a Aztecs all afternoon, tying them to 3-of-21 sharpened from 3-point range.

It was a initial time Colorado State kick a Top 25 group during Moby given knocking off Purdue 71-69 on Dec. 30, 2003. Fans were fervent to join a jubilee as a tyro territory rushed onto a floor, some fluttering card cutouts of Rams manager Tim Miles and Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

This was only what a Rams indispensable after dropping dual true on a road, putting a critical tighten in their NCAA contest hopes. They indispensable a signature feat like this on their resume.

“It gives us hope,” Eikmeier said. “But during a same time, we are still common given of a final dual games. We know how bad we can be. We know how good we can be.”

The good chronicle of a Rams positively showed adult Saturday. They set a discussion record by going 23 for 23 during a tainted line.

“Feels good,” Bell said. “But we have to build on it. We can’t build a whole deteriorate on this.”

Jamaal Franklin had 24 points and 10 rebounds for a Aztecs. Chase Tapley, a conference’s heading scorer, was hold to 10 points. He was averaging 16.4.

“We were not prolific with a offense,” Fisher said.

The Aztecs positively weren’t: Xavier Thames, James Rahon and Tapley were a total 6 for 36.

Colorado State’s brisk invulnerability had something to do with that. Playing man-to-man defense, a Rams were constantly pestering San Diego’s outward shooters, frequency ever giving them a transparent look.

“I consider we held them on a bad sharpened game, that helped,” Miles said. “That’s because we were means to extend. If they had been a small hotter, it could have been an unimaginable game.”

Colorado State led by as many as 18 points mid by a second half, afterwards weathered a late swell by San Diego State, that hadn’t mislaid given Nov. 30 opposite Creighton. The Aztecs incited adult a vigour and whittled a necessity to 12 with 4:11 remaining.

That’s when a Rams became some-more counsel on offense, removal time off a time and watchful for a Aztecs to tainted them. Colorado State strike 12 giveaway throws down a widen to finish a nine-game movement opposite San Diego State.

“This is a start in a right direction,” Miles said.

When ranked in The Associated Press poll, a Aztecs have been really successful opposite unranked teams, entering this diversion with a 38-0 mark. But they never found their sharpened touch.

Just don’t censure it on sleepy legs.

“I’m not going to place a censure on us traveling. We know how a discussion is and a climates,” brazen Tim Shelton said. “That’s not a reason during all.”

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