San Diego State Aztecs picked 1st in Mountain West Preseason Media Poll
By Joel Burdeos
San Diego, CA- The San Diego State Aztecs have been picked to win the Mountain West this season in the annual Mountain West Preseason Media Poll. According to GoAztecs.com, this is the third time in the last five seasons the San Diego State Aztecs have been t picked 1st in the preseason media poll.
According to Mark Zeigler of UT-San Diego, the Aztecs received 34 of 35 1st-place votes. Boise State was the only other school to receive a 1st place vote.
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The Aztecs open the season on November 7th against Point Loma at Viejas Arena for their only exhibition game of the season and expectations are very high for this seasons team.
The Aztecs went (31-5) last season and advanced to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament, before falling to No. 1 Seed Arizona 70-64 . The Aztecs also won the Mountain West regular-season championship with the most conference wins by an Aztecs team, as they went (16-2) in conference play. The San Diego State Aztecs finished last season ranked No. 12 in the AP Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Poll’s, despite being unranked to begin the season.
This season the Aztecs will be ranked in the Top 25 polls to begin the season. All preseason rankings, have the San Diego State Aztecs in the Top 25 to begin the season, some rankings even have the Aztecs in the Top 10 to begin the season.
Despite the loss of leading scorer Xavier Thames and leading rebounder Josh Davis, the Aztecs return three starters in Winston Shepard, Skylar Spencer, JJ O’Brien and Dwayne Polee, Matt Shrigley, Aqeel Quinn and Dakari Allen off the bench. To go along with that the Aztecs are bringing in a a top-15 recruiting class, the highest ranked recruiting class in program history in freshmen Trey Kell, Kevin Zabo, Malik Pope and Zylan Cheatham.