Cal State Fullerton draws Duke in the NCAA West Regional bracket, and with it the first shot at ending Coach K’s career.
For the first time Fullerton has reached the NCAA Tournament in a year not ending in the digit 8, after surviving Long Beach State’s final possession of the night in Saturday’s Big West championship game. The first appearance was in 1978 – or one year before Magic Johnson and Larry Bird transformed the tournament – and the team that nobody had paid attention to came within one steal in the lane from incredibly reaching the Final Four.
“There’s always that risk you run,” head coach Dedrique Taylor said. “But I do think these guys have so much more access that I don’t know that the four letters across their jersey are as big as they were five or 10 years ago. There’ll still be that element, but I don’t think it’ll be as big or as gaudy.”
There’s another factor. For the game’s bluebloods, preparing for the NCAA Tournament is old hat, baked into the season’s routine. You get on a plane, you fly to the tournament site, you bring along whatever schoolwork you have, you practice and you play. It’s normal. Only one player on the Fullerton roster has played in the NCAA Tournament: Grad transfer E.J. Anosike, who appeared in one game last spring for Tennessee.
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