San Diego State’s first Pac-12 basketball schedule has arrived, and the games everyone circled are right where you’d expect: the Gonzaga matchups.
The Aztecs will get two shots at the perennial West Coast heavyweight in their debut conference season, with the first meeting set for Feb. 6 at Viejas Arena. The return trip to Spokane comes on Feb. 27, when SDSU visits the Kennel in the third-to-last game of the regular season.
That’s a marquee pair of dates in a 16-game round robin that also sends the Aztecs through a familiar lineup of Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and Utah State. Those four schools joined SDSU in leaving the Mountain West for the Pac-12 on July 1.
The rest of the league is made up of Washington State, Oregon State and newcomer Texas State.
SDSU opens its Pac-12 era on Jan. 6 at Oregon State. The first home conference game lands three days later, on Jan. 9 against Fresno State.
Tip times and TV assignments will be announced later.
The Gonzaga games bring a lot of weight because these are two of the most established programs on the West Coast. Gonzaga’s NCAA Tournament streak now stands at 27 straight seasons, most of it under Mark Few, who was recently inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. San Diego State has been to March Madness six times under Brian Dutcher, beginning with the 2017-18 season.
The Aztecs enter this new league chapter trying to move past what was, by the program’s standards, a brutal year. They were picked as Mountain West favorites in the preseason and ended up missing the NCAA Tournament entirely.
History between SDSU and Gonzaga has been tight. The teams have played six times dating to the 1959-60 season and split those games 3-3. Five of those meetings have come since 2010-11.
At Viejas Arena, San Diego State beat Gonzaga 72-70 in 2017-18 before falling 80-67 in the most recent matchup, during the 2024-25 season.
The Aztecs have also had success in Spokane, going 2-1 there. Their biggest win in the series came on Dec. 29, 2023, when they knocked off No.
13 Gonzaga 84-74 at McCarthey Athletic Center. That loss ended the Zags’ 59-game non-conference home winning streak and marked their first double-digit home defeat in 173 games.
San Diego State has more ground to make up against the Pac-12’s legacy members. Washington State is 6-0 all-time against the Aztecs, with the series dating back to the 1975-76 season.
Oregon State is 1-0 after beating SDSU in Corvallis on Dec. 17, 1971.
There’s also a return meeting with Texas State on the schedule. The Aztecs will host the Bobcats on Jan. 20, then play at Texas State on Feb.
- It’s the fourth meeting between the schools and the first since the 1997-98 season, with SDSU holding a 2-1 edge in the series.
San Diego State’s full Pac-12 slate runs as follows:
Jan. 6 - at Oregon State
Jan.
9 - Fresno State
Jan.
14 - Colorado State
Jan. 17 - at Washington State
Jan. 20 - Texas State
Jan. 23 - at Boise State
Jan. 30 - at Colorado State
Feb. 4 - Utah State
Feb. 6 - Gonzaga
Feb. 11 - at Texas State
Feb. 17 - at Utah State
Feb. 20 - Washington State
Feb. 25 - Oregon State
Feb. 27 - at Gonzaga
March 3 - at Fresno State
March 6 - Boise State
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