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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
ORLANDO, Fla. — They weren’t going to be denied. No way. Not after last year. Not after waiting 12 months. Not after the memories of blowing a nine-point lead with 2 1/2 minutes to go was etched into their collective psyches. San Diego State squandered a nine-point lead again in an NCAA Tournament game that it seemingly had under control, but then it decided enough was enough, that it wasn’t ready for the season to end, that it was time for Cinderella to head back up I-95. Just hours after Furman shocked fourth-seeded Virginia with a last-second 3 on this same floor, the Aztecs made sure there…