San Diego State senior forward Matt Shrigley couldn’t buy a basket in his first six games since coming off an ACL tear in the offseason, missing his first 14 shots, 13 of them behind the arc.
But Wednesday night against Air Force Academy, he took the monkey squarely off his back with 12 points to help lead the SDSU men’s basketball team to a 64-59 win.
“He needs to see the ball go through the net in a game, and hopefully that’ll happen before I retire,” head coach Steve Fisher said Friday of Shrigley.
Well, Fisher got his wish, and then some, as Shrigley drained the first four shots he took, all 3-pointers, in a span of less than three minutes midway through the first half.