San Diego State outlasts Creighton to reach the NCAA tournament Final Four for the first time. The Aztecs will play Florida Atlantic in the semifinals.
The program that 25 years ago was among the worst in college basketball, that had 14 losing seasons in 15 years, that had never been ranked in the Associated Press poll until 2010, that hadn’t won an NCAA Tournament game until 2011, that hadn’t been past the Sweet 16 until Friday, that doesn’t play in a power conference, that crams into middle seats on Southwest Airlines for road trips, that has two players in its rotation who had no Division I scholarship offers out of high school — is going...
It will because Darrion Trammell made a free throw with 1.2 seconds left after drawing a foul on Ryan Nembhard while attempting a game-winning floater — a whistle that Creighton fans, no doubt, will rue for years. The Aztecs shot just 37.7%, below Creighton’s 40 percent, but they compensated with 13 offensive rebounds that they converted into 13 second-chance points. They also held the Bluejays to 2 of 17 behind the 3-point arc.
Creighton led by as many as eight before an 8-0 Aztecs run tied it with 2:44 to go in the half. But they missed their next six shots while Baylor Scheierman hit a floater in the lane and Nembhard drained a 3.
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