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Mar. 16—Considering he had been immersed in a long, award-winning career as a sports broadcaster in New York City, Otis Livingston was surprised to be touched so deeply by a basketball tidbit that hit the news last week. The Idaho Vandals men's basketball team had qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 36 years.
Wait, Livingston thought, that was the 1990 team. That was my team! Could it have taken them that long to get back?
"I didn't keep close tabs on teams every single year, but I did see some hard times," Livingston said of the trajectory of Vandal basketball. "This one is a surprise. That's what March Madness is about, teams that get hot at the right time and earn the right to go to the NCAA Tournament.
So, that's why we're so proud of them this year. " The Vandals (21-14) ended the lengthy drought by beating Montana in the Big Sky Conference tournament, earning a No. 15 seed and now getting ready to face No.
2-seeded Houston Thursday in Oklahoma City. Their situation is not much different than that of the 1990 team, except the earlier edition rolled through the regular season with a 25-5 record. Livingston was the All-Big Sky Conference point guard who distributed a team-high 12 assists in that 78-59 loss to No.
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