SAN DIEGO — In practice his teammates see it all the time. Aamir Simms takes the basketball, glides up the court and then makes a spectacular dunk.
They had been waiting for him to do it in a game all season, but the true freshman from Virginia always passed up the opportunity. However, when he caught the basketball just above his own foul line as New Mexico State was try to deny the Tigers’ guards the ball in the second half, no one was on the 6-foot-7, 237-pound Simms.
So Simms finally did what he has always done in practice.