HOUSTON — If Brian Dutcher had his way, you may not even know he was at the Final Four or playing for a National Championship on Monday night in NRG Stadium.
Nary a microphone has been stuck in front of the 63-year-old basketball lifer this week that didn’t get hit with a deflection of attention away from the job he has done to build the San Diego State Aztecs into one of the top teams on the West Coast, the standard of the Mountain West, and now playing for a national title.
After Saturday’s etched-in-history buzzer-beating victory over Florida Atlantic in the Final Four, the coach said, “March is for players, not coaches.