FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Colorado State wore all-orange uniforms for its basketball game Saturday against San Diego State in homage to its roots as the Colorado A&M Aggies whose colors were “pumpkin orange” and “alfalfa green.” San Diego State was just pumpkins. The clock might have struck midnight for a team of such enormous expectations and possibility, losing 83-74 in the orange haze of Moby Arena and likely erasing their already dwindling hopes of an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament. They had fallen out of most projected brackets following Tuesday’s home loss against Grand Canyon. Now they almost certainly plunged too far to recover with only four regular-season games remaining — two...
