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Tim Tracy looks at the sports section of the exhibit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Flathead Valley Community College at the Museum at Central School. A Mountaineers basketball uniform is on display from the 1969-70 men’s basketball season. The team finished with a 23-4 record in its only season. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)

Tim Tracy looks at the sports section of the exhibit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Flathead Valley Community College at the Museum at Central School. A Mountaineers basketball uniform is on display from the 1969-70 men’s basketball season. The team finished with a 23-4 record in its only season. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)

April 22, 2017

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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.