Published on Tuesday, December 29, 2009
By JIM ALEXANDER
SAN DIEGO - This could have been a true statement game.
Maybe, in a way, it was.
UC Riverside had San Diego State by the scruff of the neck Tuesday night. The Aztecs were horrible from the free throw line, not much better from the field, seemingly inattentive until the very end.
The Highlanders hung around, hung around, hung around, and ultimately had the ball with 8.5 seconds left, one three-pointer away from tying the game. To maybe steal a game they hadn't been given much chance to win. To show the Big West, and most of all themselves, that they're for real.
That they fell short, 58-53, wasn't a moral victory. It wasn't, nor should it have been, the satisfaction of playing a quasi-big-time program close.
This was low-hanging fruit, and the Highlanders weren't able to reach up and pluck it
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