Oct. 10, 2008

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego State men's basketball team has been picked to finish second in the Mountain West Conference by Sporting News in its 2008-09 college basketball preseason magazine.

Meanwhile, Lindy's 2008-09 preseason college basketball publication predicted SDSU to finish third in the MWC.

This season San Diego State returns all five starters and its top eight scorers from a year ago, including all-conference performers Lorrenzo Wade (first team), Ryan Amoroso (third team) and Billy White (third team and freshman of the year). Eight times Fisher has inherited a team that he coached the year before that returned at least four starters and all eight times the team has advanced to postseason play (seven NCAA Tournaments and one postseason NIT championship) and won at least 21 games.

SDSU will make its first appearance of the season in an exhibition game against Point Loma Nazarene on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. PT and will get its regular season underway on Saturday, Nov. 15, vs. UC San Diego at 1 p.m. PT. Both games will be held at Cox Arena.

Season tickets for the 2008-09 men's basketball season start as low as $99 for limited chair-back reserve seats. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Aztec Ticket Office at (619) 283-SDSU (7378), by visiting Window E at Qualcomm Stadium or online at GoAztecs.com. For more information on all season tickets, contact the Aztec Ticket Office.