Isaiah Hill (left) and Shon Robinson (right) (Photo by Max Bechtoldt)
By Matt Weiner (@MattWeiner20) – MBB Beat Reporter
Anarchy was in attendance and refused to leave during the San Jose State Spartans’ 69-67 overtime loss to Fresno State.
All losses are not built equal. Some will fade from your memory like a random dream and others will be etched into your memory’s museum for a long time. This one was the latter.
This year will be remembered as the beginning of something new,” said Omari Moore. Everytime Orlando Robinson and Fresno State threw a punch, SJSU came back with a few upper cuts of its own.
Coming down to the final minute and down 60-58, Trey Anderson stepped in front of Orlando Robinson with 39 seconds left to take a huge charge.
“He’s [Robinson] going to try and get downhill, get all the way to the charge line and make his perimeter to post move … so if you can beat him to his angle, maybe you can take a charge,” said SJSU head coach Tim Miles.
Robinson scored a court-high 31 points on 11 of 21 shooting from the field.
Anderson’s charge set up Moore to go iso and swerved through the lane like he was Dominic Torreto while finishing with a crafty lay up at the rim over Robinson.
David beat Goliath right there, but Goliath got the last laugh.
Fresno State drew first blood to begin overtime on a second-chance bucket from Isaiah Hill who finished the game second on the team in points with 14.
The Spartans were unphased by Hill’s basket as Moore threw in another layup to knot the score up at 62.
The Spartans took a 68-67 lead with a minute left.
Unfortunately for SJSU, it would be the last time it held a lead.
With 22 second left in a 67-67 ball game, Moore was inbounding the ball while the Spartans battled a tenacious full court Bulldog press.
Tibet Gorener went full Bill Buckner in the 1986 World Series letting a ball slip right through his fingertips.
Fresno recovered the loose ball, setting up Jordan Campbell to sink a teardrop that grazed the roof of Thomas and Mack Center.
SJSU bent without breaking the entire game, holding the Bulldogs to shoot 4 of 23 from three, but the teardrop was the straw that broke the Spartans’ back.
