San Diego State University NCAA News

The San Diego basketball team was at a crossroads. The Toreros had just lost on the road to Nevada, a listless 76-62 defeat.

Wink Adams scored 19 points to lead the UNLV Rebels to a 65-60 victory over the San Diego Toreros in non-conference action.

John Matthews set two school receiving records and Sebastian Trujillo threw four touchdown passes to lead San Diego to a 34-17 win over Butler on Saturday night.

Trujillo threw a pair of touchdowns to Matthews, who caught a school-record 14 passes for 187 yards. Matthews also set the San Diego single-season receiving yardage record with 1,317.

Matthews caught touchdown passes of 5 and 30 yards from Trujillo, who completed 22 of 31 passes for 258 yards. Trujillo's other TD passes went 10 and 8 yards to Ben Hannula.

Wink Adams scored 19 points and freshman Oscar Bellfield added 13 to lead UNLV over San Diego 65-60 Saturday afternoon in the season opener for both teams.

USD men's basketball coach Bill Grier addresses the student body at a pregame barbecue bash to encourage attendance at games.

This is what University of San Diego senior guard Brandon Johnson says he told fellow All-West Coast Conference pick Gyno Pomare when he learned the Toreros' senior center was suspended indefinitely.

Jonathan Dally threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more, leading Cal Poly to a 49-3 rout of N.C. Central on Saturday night in Sal Luis Obispo, Calif.

Roberto Mafra scored a game-high 21 points to lift San Diego to a 71-67 exhibition win over Cal State Los Angeles on Saturday night.

The Toreros trailed 65-59 before holding its Division II opponents without a field goal and to only two points in the final 6:55.

Mafra went 9-for-10 from the field for San Diego, which advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season. Trumaine Johnson added eight points, including three consecutive baskets in the final three minutes when he tied the score and put the Toreros ahead for good at 69-67.

Sebastian Trujillo threw three touchdown passes and ran for the game-winning score as San Diego rallied to defeat Davidson 28-24 on Saturday.

In its final home stand of the 2008 season, the UCLA mena s water polo team will face a full slate of three games this weekend, two of which will be against teams that rank in the top 10 of the nation.

Practice habits change for the USD football team during Dayton Week. Passes are a little crisper.

The University of Dayton football team suffered defeats the last two times it had to traipse across the country to face San Diego, getting routed 56-14 on its last visit.

Rob Florian threw two touchdown passes and Dayton's top-ranked defense helped snap San Diego's 28-game home winning streak with a 30-22 win on Saturday night.

Dayton (8-1, 5-0 Pioneer Football League) stifled the league's No. 1-ranked offense, holding the Toreros to 226 total yards, 200 yards below their average. The Toreros were averaging 39.4 points per game.

San Diego (6-2, 4-2 PFL) had not lost at home since Princeton won 24-17 on Sept. 25, 2004. The Toreros' home win streak was the nation's longest among all Football Championship Subdivision and Football Bowl Subdivision teams.

Who: Dayton at San Diego When: 9 p.m. Where: Torero Stadium Radio: WHIO-AM , WHIO-FM Series: UD leads 11-4, but San Diego won four straight meetings from 2003-06 until dropping a 35-16 decision last season.

BOB MACK/The Times-Union San Diego kicker John McSorley can only watch as Jacksonville University's Teddy Tomlin and Shaun Lewis go up to block an extra-point attempt during the third quarter of Saturday ...

The University of Dayton Flyer football team will look to win its 11th straight Pioneer Football League game Saturday when UD squares off against San Diego at San Diego.

J.T. Rogan is going to have a lot more company along the sidelines in USD's final four games of the season.

Curry's field goal was set up by Elliott Finkley's 20-yard punt return to the San Diego 37.

Everybody's back from the team that in March became the first Division I basketball affiliate from San Diego to win an NCAA Tournament game.

STRENGTHS: The Toreros return five starters from the team that clipped Connecticut in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament.