Boise State secured its fourth consecutive win on senior night, defeating San Diego State 86-77 in the final regular season home game of the year. The game took place Tuesday night at ExtraMile Arena.
Drew Fielder led Boise State (19-11 overall, 11-8 Mountain West) with a career-high 33 points off the bench. Fielder, who gave up his starting spot to senior Dominic Parolin, also made a personal best of 16 free throws and collected nine rebounds.
Javan Buchanan contributed 17 points and four rebounds, while Dylan Andrews added 13 points. Andrew Meadow finished with 12 points and five rebounds. RJ Keene II had five points, eight rebounds, five assists, and one block.
San Diego State (19-10, 13-6 MW) was led by Reese Dixon-Waters with 23 points on eight field goals. Tae Simmons scored 12 points and grabbed three rebounds off the bench.
Buchanan opened the scoring for Boise State with the team’s first five points. The Broncos started strong offensively, making four of their first eight shots and leading by six at the initial media timeout. Afterward, Aginaldo Neto and Pearson Carmichael hit back-to-back three-pointers as part of a nine-point run that gave Boise State its first double-digit lead.
San Diego State struggled early in shooting accuracy, making just two of their first thirteen attempts and going over six minutes without a field goal. During this period, Boise State extended its lead to as many as seventeen points before San Diego State responded with twelve straight points to cut the deficit to five. However, Boise State regained control before halftime and led 34-27 at intermission.
In the second half, Boise State scored fourteen of the first eighteen points to increase its lead to seventeen. Meadow and Buchanan combined for twelve of those fourteen early second-half points. The Broncos’ advantage grew to twenty-one before San Diego State reduced it to seven late in the game but could not get closer.
Boise State shot fifty-two percent from the floor during the game while holding San Diego State to fifteen total team rebounds. There were no ties or lead changes throughout all forty minutes; Boise State led for more than thirty-nine minutes.
The victory improved Boise State’s record against San Diego State to fifteen wins in twenty-two meetings all-time and nine wins out of fourteen games played at ExtraMile Arena. This season marks seven consecutive years that Boise State has achieved double-digit home victories after finishing with twelve wins at home.
With this result, Boise State is now nineteen-and-one when leading at halftime this season and has scored eighty or more points for the fourteenth time this year under assistant coach Tim Duryea’s tenure—posting an eighty-one-and-eight record when reaching that mark since he joined staff.
Fielder’s sixteen made free throws are also notable as they represent the second-most ever in a single game in program history.
Boise State will conclude its regular season Saturday afternoon on the road against Colorado State. The matchup will be broadcast live on Mountain West Network and KBOI 670 AM radio beginning at 2 p.m. MT.
