Long Beach State surfs emotional wave into clash with No. 2 Arizona

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An intriguing coaching matchup is at the center of Thursday's first-round clash between No. 2 seed Arizona and No. 15 Long Beach State in the NCAA Tournament West Region in Salt Lake City.

It's Tommy Lloyd and the Wildcats (25-8) against Dan Monson and the Beach (21-14). Monson first believed inLloyd's potential as a basketball coach back in the late 1990s at Gonzaga, and n