First things first: San Jose State (18-12, 9-8 MW) has to win its last regular season game against another pesky team in Air Force on Saturday at altitude in Colorado (6,788’) to best assure an unimaginable first round bye in the Mountain West conference tournament.
Second thing: in the city of San Jose, it’s been decades since the Spartans have seen, felt or heard of an 18-win season. 1981 to be exact.
Nancy, a long-time Spartan alum since the 1960s, said to second-year head coach Tim Miles, “You’ve made basketball fun again around here!