COLLEGE STATION — The stage is set, and the march for its first national title is underway for Texas A&M basketball. The 10th-seeded Aggies will play the seventh-seeded Saint Mary's Gaels at 6:35 p.m.

It was the kind of sequence that embodies everything we love about sports – and especially college basketball. With 10 seconds left in the Saturday’s New Jersey Athletic Conference Tournament final, ...