SAN DIEGO — This was the scene: On one end of the basketball court at Viejas Arena, San Diego State players danced and pranced and hooted and hollered, bumping chests and slapping hands and laughing up a storm while expending all sorts of energy dunking.
The biggest basketball game in Mountain West Conference history (Part II) is today at Viejas Arena. There will be a sold-out crowd of more than 12,000 and a national TV audience on CBS and some of the country’s most creative students, many of whom camped out for days to purchase tickets.
You want to bottle it. To gently unscrew the top and slowly pour in the fight, the determination, the unselfishness, the hustle, the terrific effort by Quintrell Thomas, the shooting accuracy of Tre’Von Willis, the will not to lose a game in an atmosphere where most teams would fade.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Messages can be sent different ways. Letters. E-mails. Texts. Tweets. When it comes to college basketball, the most important ones deal in numbers.
Tim Chambers has never been one to blow an uncertain trumpet. The guy dreams big and expects those around him to share a similar confidence.
