Maybe it was the fact that the game wasn’t played on an early Saturday afternoon.
Maybe it was the energy.
Maybe it was indeed the head-scratcher of a starting lineup that head coach Steve Fisher chose.
Maybe Steve Fisher got angry. Scary angry to the point of intimidation.
Whatever it was, the San Diego State men’s basketball team that took the floor on Monday night against East Carolina University was completely and utterly different than the one that laid an egg two days earlier against Little Rock.
ECU came out in a bizarre, double-teaming 3-2 zone and forced the Aztecs to shoot.