SAN DIEGO — San Diego State received the eighth seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and will face ninth- seeded Creighton in a first-round game Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas.
Oddsmakers have made the Aztecs a 2-point to 2-1/2-point favorite. The ABC News-owned data prediction website FiveThirtyEight.com gives San Diego State a 55% chance of winning.
San Diego State (23-8) is the overall 31st seed in the 68-team tournament. The Bluejays (22-11) are the 33rd overall seed.
Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, the ninth seeds have a 73-71 record against the eighth seeds in the first round.
This will be the Aztecs' second year in a row making the tournament, third in the five seasons Brian Dutcher has coached the team, ninth in the last 13 years, 13th since becoming a Division I program in the fall of 1969 and 16th all-time, including three appearances in the College Division (now Division II) tournament.
San Diego State is 3-4 against Creighton, including an 83-52 victory in their most recent meeting, Nov. 28, 2019, in a semifinal of the Las Vegas Invitational.
The game is set to begin at 4:27 p.m. and will be televised by cable's truTV.
The San Diego State-Creighton winner will face the winner of the game between top-seeded Kansas and the winner of Tuesday's First Four game between Texas Southern and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in a second-round game Saturday.
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