SAN DIEGO — The head student manager for the San Diego State men’s basketball team is Nihilo Ibarra, a nice, mild-mannered kid who comes to practice every day and dutifully does his job.
He got a technical foul Friday night at Viejas Arena.
Boise State had just called timeout with 5:47 left in the first half after Adam Seiko drained a 3-pointer from Julian that capped a 20-2 run and pushed the Aztecs’ lead to 19. One of Ibarra’s jobs is to walk to the opposite end of the scorer’s table during timeouts to retrieve stat sheets for the coaches, and as he went he made the celebratory dialing-up-a-3 phone gesture with his hand, just like Seiko does after making one.
