With the madness of March upon us, first-year Spartan head coach Tim Miles is home watching tourney games with his cohorts - no doubt studying and enjoying the competition to which his San Jose State program aspires.
It’s a daunting task to create a winning program where really none has been before for the university. 50 years of hard luck with a couple blips: an NCAA tournament experience in 1996 and two winning seasons in 1993 and 2010.
This year, Spartan basketball was 8-23 overall with one conference win in Miles’ inaugural season.
Though experts and pundits did have the Spartans slotted close to the bottom - Miles’ smarts and emotional fire power left some thinking that could be enough to will the team up a notch or two.