Upstart San Diego State, with Bay Area ties, set to play on college basketball’s biggest stage
The San Diego State men’s basketball team has a handful of players with connections to the Bay Area. Now those players, and the rest of this upstart Aztecs team, face their greatest test on college basketball’s biggest stage. San Diego State beat Florida Atlantic 72-71 in Houston on Saturday as Lamont Butler’s buzzer-beater put the Aztecs into the national championship game for the first time in school history. Monday, they’ll face a UConn team that has destroyed every team in its path over the last three weeks, including the Miami...