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“BASKETBALL–SAD STATE”
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From bad to worse in basketball.  Name it.  It is bad.

AZTECS…Disappointed by the loss of G-Nick Boyd, going back on his word about returning next year, then broadsiding Coach Brian Dutcher in his exit meeting, saying he was going to transfer.  Boyd was many things to SDSU in his lone year here.  Tremendous competitor, fiery, vocal, a leader.  But you can cross ‘loyal’ off his resume.  His turnabout came 7-days after he told us in the media he was going to stay at SDSU.

AZTECS II…Monday brought another meeting and another chunk of bad news to Dutcher, with 7′ forward Magoon Gwath telling his coach, he was signing into the Transfer Portal because there was a potential payoff of 1M from another school.  It had to be expected considering how fast the young star had grown as a player in his first year of actual game action with SDSU.  A terrible setback for the program, but it is life.

NCAA…This is what life in the neighborhood will look like from this moment on.  The big time teams buying up all the players from the group of five schools, throwing big money as the kids San Diego State and all these schools at this level develop.  Here today, now likely all gone tomorrow.

NCAA II…Say good bye too to the history of the little guys beating the big guy.  Look at who’s in the Sweet 16 going forward.  All big time, big conference teams, with big time NIL accounts to go lure players from the little schools who used to dot the March Madness schedule and who pulled off upsets.  You might never see SDSU, George Mason, St Peter’s and the like, ever get to the Sweet 16-Elite-8-Final 4- weekends.  It is what college basketball has become.

USC..A horrific loss on the floor in the Lady Trojan’s NCAA tourney game with Mississippi State.  Superstar Ju Ju Watkins goes down with two torn knee ligaments some four minutes into the game, driving the floor on a fast break when her knee buckled on a layup shot.  Devastating to say the least to Women’s Basketball’s next star.

COACHING-POACHING…A busy day on the coaching front too.  Guys who did good jobs, leaving immediately for bigger jobs.  Minnesota hires Nico Medved-Colorado State.  Texas takes Xavier coach Sean Miller.  Iowa tabbed Ben McCollum of Drake.  West Virginia was talking to Utah State’s Jared Calhoun.

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