Only a few months ago, San Diego State and Creighton shared a charter flight en route to the Maui Invitational.
Head coaches Brian Dutcher and Greg McDermott sat across the aisle from one-another for six hours, chatting about their teams and musing about the possibility of meeting in the Maui title game.
“And then we would be OK," McDermott said, “with one of us winning and one of us losing.”
The Aztecs and Bluejays missed each other in Maui, but, as fate would have it, their paths would cross again with a little more at stake.