Statistics can be misleading. And sometimes they can be brutally honest.

San Diego State’s women’s basketball team had one of the latter Wednesday in a 72-47 loss to Santa Clara at Viejas Arena in the Aztecs’ first of two “Field Trip” games for area elementary school kids.

The statistic: 1-for-29. That’s what the Aztecs shot from 3-point range for the game.

It’s not the only reason the Aztecs (3-2) lost. San Diego State’s defense appeared a step behind throughout a terrible first half, and the Aztecs trailed 45-17 at the break. SDSU was outrebounded 56-36. But their 3-point shooting was particularly abysmal.

“I don’t think we gave ourselves much of a chance playing the type of defense that we did in the first half,” SDSU coach Stacie Terry-Hutson said. “We did a better job playing defe

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