The sweet-spot combination of confidence and skill in Division I basketball is tricky to find and trickier to maintain. A player can be brimming with one, but betrayed by the other. One day can be draped in a sense of sky-high invincibility. The next feels like an unraveling golf swing depositing balls into creeks.
Navigating the in between, the space where San Diego State guard Darrion Trammell has lived much of this season, can test and torture.
Trammell somehow, some way has done something even more impressive than locating the intersection that players claw and strain to reach. He's done it at the absolute best time, scoring 21 points against No. 1 Alabama and rising up in the biggest moment against Creighton by hitting the winning free throw to send the Aztecs to the program's first Final Four.
