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FVCC’s MIKE Vernon (42) rips the ball out of the hands of a Whitworth Pirate. Vernon was backed up by Dexter Holloway, who scored 20 points in the season finale, which proved to be the last men’s basketball game at the college. (Courtesy Dave Cassan)

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Men's basketball: One year and out, but what a year!
April 22, 2017 10:13 p.m.

Men's basketball: One year and out, but what a year!

Years before he would hone his craft under a future hall of fame coach, convince a Texan with a funky name to study in Laramie, Wyoming, and turn the men’s basketball team at that state’s flagship university from perennial punching bag to NCAA Tournament darlings, Jim Brandenburg was finished with coaching.