Steve Fisher, San Diego State Agree to New Contract: Latest Details, Analysis

San Diego State men's basketball coach Steve Fisher has molded the Aztecs into a perennial NCAA-tournament team, and he will have the opportunity to build upon that foundation in the coming years.

According to ESPN Insider's Jeff Goodman, the 69-year-old former Naismith College Coach of the Year will ink a three-year contract extension to remain at San Diego State:

Fisher has been the head man at SDSU since the 1999-2000 season, and he has compiled an impressive 314-176 record. The Aztecs have qualified for the NCAA tournament in five consecutive seasons, including a run to the Sweet 16 last year.

Per FoxSports.com, via Bernie Wilson of the Associated Press, Fisher has even bigger aspirations in 2014-15:

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Ultimately that's what we aspire to. We want to win a national championship. You can't do that if you don't get to the Final Four. It used to be laughable for people. Now they're laughing with joy, saying, 'It's going to happen.' Many of them don't realize how hard it is just to get into the tournament, much less win a game, much less get past the Sweet 16. We want to do something we haven't done, which is get beyond the Sweet 16, which gets you one step closer. Ultimately we want to win a national championship. East to say. Very, very hard to do.

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After news of the extension first broke, Jeff Eisenberg of Yahoo Sports was among those who celebrated the decision:

Fisher has long been one of college basketball's elite coaches, dating back to his time with the Michigan Wolverines. He led Big Blue to a national title at the conclusion of the 1988-89 season and reached the championship game in both 1991-92 and 1992-93 as well.

While Fisher hasn't quite gotten San Diego State to that level yet, the class of the Mountain West Conference is seemingly getting closer with each passing year.

Fisher has been integral to San Diego State's ascent, and securing him for three more years was undoubtedly a great move on the school's part.

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