At Mission San Jose, a bunch of ‘nerds’ are showing what high school basketball is ...

FREMONT — The gym at Mission San Jose High doesn’t feel like the center of a basketball uprising. It feels like a place where someone might remind you that a big physics exam is coming up. The crowd is modest. The student section is more brain power than body count. You half expect someone to be reviewing flashcards between timeouts. This is, after all, one of the top academic public schools in the country – a campus where the loudest buzz most nights comes from stress about the next AP exam, not a playoff run. And yet, on Thursday night, inside that quiet little gym in Fremont, I saw something beautiful unfold. Mission San Jose’s Joseph Standfield (23) reacts after defeating Oroville during...