Alexander: Just like clockwork, Cal State Fullerton is back in NCAA Tournament

ANAHEIM — For the few, the proud, the sometimes beleaguered fans who have followed the fortunes of Cal State Fullerton basketball, years ending in the numeral 8 have been something to look forward to.
There was 1978, when Fullerton — in just its fourth season in Division I, and not yet known as a baseball school — came within a stripped ball in the lane of, amazingly, beating Arkansas in the West Region final and making it to the Final Four.
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