SALT LAKE CITY — Utah State’s Craig Smith spent a fair amount of Selection Sunday’s afterglow talking about history. That’s what people do in March. His own includes reaching a national championship game in a previous coaching iteration.
Like any other month, March has had its share of historical moments. In 537 A.D., Belisarius saved Rome from the Goths. Forty-five years ago this month, Watergate hit the fan. The Salvation Army began business in 1880.
In March 1775, Patrick Henry thundered, “Give me liberty or give me death!”
BYU, Utah and Weber State did something similar on Sunday, declaring “Give us an NCAA/NIT bid or give us death!