Some are going on SDSU charter flights, others are making their own arrangements to see men's basketball team compete for a national championship
Angie Robert and her husband, Scott, are both San Diego State University graduates. She jokes that they fell in love over a shared passion for Aztec sports — such big fans that each of their baby sons came home from the hospital wearing an SDSU onesie.“We could not be happier,” Robert said about the trip her family is taking to NRG Stadium this weekend to watch the men’s basketball team compete for a national championship. “I can’t even focus on anything else.”She’s not the only one.
“You can’t miss this chance,” said Kyle Cunningham, another alum and longtime season-ticket holder who is going to Houston. “You never know if it will happen again.” The SDSU Bookstore has seen a large increase in purchases of Aztec gear — 4,600 online orders in the first three days after Sunday’s win over Creighton sent the team to the Final Four, campus officials said.
They watched football first, and only added basketball, Lorang said, “because it was almost free.” This was when Steve Fisher, the former men’s coach who began turning the program around in the late 1990s, would walk around and give away tickets. Matt Ortiz was raised in Del Cerro, the son of an SDSU alum who was the first in the family to attend college. Dad, Gabriel Ortiz, stayed at the university and helped run the athletics department.His uncle was an equipment manager for the sports teams, and a lot of other relatives graduated from the school, he said. He planned to go there, too, but by the time he finished high school, he’d been pulled in another direction, as a clothing and graphics entrepreneur.
Now he’s all in for the Final Four, heading out Friday morning on one of the four charter flights SDSU lined up for fans. Cunningham is traveling with a college fraternity brother.People making the trip are bringing their SDSU gear. “Sweatshirts, hats, scarves, bags, you name it,” said Roxi Fulton, a school teacher who has three degrees from the university. “I don’t think you’ll see me in anything else all weekend.
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