As the college basketball season approaches March and conference battles heat up like the weather in San Diego, news should be centered around bracketology predictions and fierce rivalries.
For San Diego State mens basketball, and the rest of the Mountain West, the focus has shifted away from the players and coaches and squarely on the conference and its referees.
The Aztecs’ game Saturday against Air Force Academy is hardly a blip on the radar, considering what the conference has had to go through in the last week.
It started last Saturday in SDSU’s game vs. University of New Mexico when the MW issued a statement following the game that said the referees incorrectly called an inbound violation that gave the Aztecs the ball and set up sophomore forward Malik Pope’s 3-pointer that sent the game into overtime and led to an Aztec win.