SDSU women earn WBIT first round win with clutch effort against UC Irvine

The eleven days spent back in the lab served the San Diego State women’s basketball team well, as the Aztecs gutted and gritted their way to a 61-55 win over UC Irvine in the first round of the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament at Jenny Craig Pavilion.The wounds of an opening round conference tournament exit became hardened defensive callouses as the Aztecs (26-5) held the Big West regular season champion Anteaters (26-7) without a basket for the final 2:38 where they forced three turnove