SAN DIEGO -- As the San Diego State basketball story continues to grow, I have visions of pixie dust descending on the Aztecs. Their burgeoning success feels a bit unreal because there is no framework for it. San Diego State just does not matter in men's basketball. At least, it never did matter to the sport's poll-makers. Until a month ago, in fact, San Diego State had never been ranked in its 90 years of basketball. San Diego State was like Greenland -- large but largely inconspicuous. Here is a big public university in heavily populated Southern California. Yet: 89 years, never ranked.
Now, as if a higher force bestowed powers to make up for those decades, San Diego State is 12-0 and rising in the polls every week. Recent bursts of helium into the SDSU balloon likely will have the Aztecs among the Top 10 when the next polls come out (update: the Aztecs are No. 7 in the latest AP poll). How strange the sight will be: San Diego State with a single digit in front of it. San Diego State near some of the bluest of basketball's blue bloods; Duke, Kansas, Connecticut. Syracuse ... San Diego State.
I wrote three weeks ago that San Diego State is the best team in the West; nonetheless, the idea of SDSU as a national presence remains more concept than reality. It's only December, basketball's version of spring training. That's part of why it doesn't all feel real. It's only December.
"We lose a couple of games, and all of this goes away," said senior point guard D.J. Gay on Saturday.
Source: http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/19/aztecs-top-ten-even-they-dont-want-to-believe-it/
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