At the peak.
That is what Boise State accomplished Saturday night at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas. After scrapping and clawing their way through the quarterfinals and semifinals, the Broncos had already exceeded what had been done in previous years. A tournament championship would only cement this team’s place in Boise State lore. San Diego State is the flagship basketball school of the Mountain West and is what every other program strives to become. Beginning with the 2009 conference tournament, the Aztecs have only missed the title game twice. This game was projected to be a defensive war, and boy was it.