Being yourself at the Final Four is very hard. The whole thing is designed to overawe. But San Diego State embraced the moment. And now the Aztecs are one step from April glory. eamonnbrennan has more:
moving downhill at the teeth of SDSU’s defense, where they could either finish in the paint or probe for a pass out to the perimeter. San Diego State’s plan had been to avoid switching screens and play in drop coverage, but doing so was causing it to be overrun, setting up the help-pass-help scramble that San Diego State spends so much time actively trying to avoid.
All of a sudden, FAU couldn’t get the ball in the paint. The balance of the first half — when every Owls rotation player scored, but none in double figures, the unguardable spread of Dusty May’s team at its best — disappeared in the second. Martin was the only FAU player to make more than one field goal in the second half.
“We played San Diego State basketball in the second half,” Velasquez said. “Took great shots. Missed them. Got the rebounds. And defensively we were who we were.”
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