This was head coach Steve Fisher's eleventh season at San Diego State.

The Aztecs competed in the Mountain West Conference and played their home games at Viejas Arena.

They won the 2010 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

Sources: In the Mountain West preseason polls, released October 6 at The Mtn.

studios in Denver, CO, San Diego State was selected to finish second in the media poll.