It may not quite be like winning your office pool, but you might have heard screams of delight from athletic department administrators across the Mountain West conference over the weekend.
After a well-publicized, and often-referenced March Madness drought of success, the San Diego State Aztecs not only snapped the league’s 11-game losing streak in the NCAA Tournament by winning on Thursday, but it then won its second-round game on Saturday to advance to the Sweet 16.
Not only is that big news for the Aztecs, but it means money in the pocket, or into the budgets, of the UNM Lobos and every Mountain West Conference member for the next six years thanks to the unique revenue distribution model the NCAA uses for the NCAA Tournament.