If you like rooting for defensive intensity, long and labored possessions, a dearth of transition buckets, difficult shots, and four-point leads that feel like 14, well, any contest involving the San Diego State Aztecs is your kind of game.
In other words, they’re always in a good 'ol fashion basketball rock fight — the kind of affair that has taught me to learn to love betting the under.
After putting the clamps down on a dynamic Creighton offense (76.4 points per game for the season) in a 56-55 slog in an Elite Eight nail-biter, the Aztecs play Saturday in their first Final Four in program history. They face the Florida Atlantic Owls, also making their first trip to college basketball's gathering of royals.
This is the part where I caution that I watched only a sampling of college basketball prior to the calendar turning to March. But I've seen enough of San Diego State this month to know that it’s going to bring a football attitude to a basketball game played at a football venue: NRG Stadium. The locale is also part of the handicap: Under 132 points in the Final Four tilt between SDSU and FAU.