The San Diego State women’s basketball team started Saturday’s Mountain West championship game with a 7-0 lead. It wasn’t a 19-0 or 12-0 lead, but still impressive.

Fresno State used runs of its own to defeat the Aztecs, ending the first half on a 12-0 run to take a 45-34 halftime lead.

To begin the second half, the Bulldogs used an 11-0 lead to grab a 22-point lead, which the Aztecs were never able to recover from.

SDSU made things interesting at the end of the second half, using a 35-15 run to cut the deficit to 71-69 with 1:13 left in the game.

“We picked a bad time to have a bad time,” SDSU head coach Beth Burns said. “I think Fresno State had an awful lot to do with that.  We’re very much a physical rep team.  We work really hard to try to do things the way we want to do them.  And we just, out of the gate, even though we had a lead, it was very much not San Diego State basketball, it was more Fresno basketball, matching baskets, up and down the floor.”

On Thursday, it was assists. On Friday, it was points. On Saturday, it was rebounds.

Senior guard Chelsea Hopkins continued to play outstanding during the Mountain West Women’s Basketball Championships.

Against Fresno State on Saturday, Hopkins scored 15 points, tied for a team-high, and grabbed 15 rebounds to go along with eight assists.

Hopkins, along with senior forward Courtney Clements, was selected to the All-Tournament team.

“Well, we have a lot of talented kids that do what they do well when you put it together,” Burns said. “But Chelsea’s our Superman.