Spartans close out historic season

As San Jose State men’s basketball (21-14, 10-8 MW) made strident steps out of mediocrity this season with a series of notable firsts:

First Mountain West conference tournament win

First post-season win

First MW Player-of-the-Year in Omari Moore

First combination of player and coach-of-the-year with second-year head coach Tim Miles

Most wins since 1980

The Spartans closed out their historic season Monday afternoon in Daytona, Florida in a 67-57 quarter-final loss to a stout Radford Highlander team (21-14) from Virginia.

The Big South Conference representative overcame the Spartans with basic basketball ingredients that defied its 10th seed in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) over…