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Lamont Butler’s jumper helped send San Diego State to its first national title game. It was a moment he hoped would make his sister proud.

HOUSTON — Thrill rides often come without dependable brakes. Just when you’re cruising, the wind in your hair, buzzing around all those exhilarating hairpin corners, heart pounding, it careens off course.

The Aztecs coach explained candidly why he held onto his final timeout.

HOUSTON — San Diego State coach Brian Dutcher just stood there while the net danced and pandemonium erupted around him. Players charged onto the court and jumped on Lamont Butler, first Aguek Arop, then Darrion Trammell, then Elijah Saunder off the bench, maybe the fastest a 6-foot-8, 240-pound human has…

"I ran out of plays so I decided not to take a timeout."

Brian Dutcher helped build one of college basketball’s strongest cultures at a program that once ranked among Division I’s worst. Now it’s paid off with the first Final Four in school history

HOUSTON — Interstate 15 can be a bear on weekday afternoons, a mass of brake lights commuting north into the suburbs.

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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…

SAN DIEGO — There are 363 Division I men’s college basketball teams, and San Diego State is one of the four still dancing through the NCAA Tournament.

As San Diego State cavorted around the KFC Yum! Center basketball court Sunday with sections of snipped netting dangling from championship hats and black and red confetti sticking to sneakers, every beaming face told a story.