Long Beach State’s journey to an NCAA Tournament bid truly puts the madness in March.
The 49ers won the Big West Conference championship game over UC Davis on Saturday, 74-70, to go dancing this March.
However, it was an odd tournament berth considering head coach Dan Monson was fired just five days prior.
Long Beach State made the decision to move on from Monson, but opted for him to remain in place until the end of the season.
The 49ers, at 18-14, went into the Big West Conference Tournament with a five-game losing streak, so the thought was they wouldn’t win it all to head into the NCAA Tournament.
That thought backfired, and now Monson will take his 49ers into the tournament hoping to play the Cinderella role every lower seed wants to be this time of year (teams will be seeded on Sunday).
