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Ice capades: The Cal State Northridge basketball team got its first true taste of the Big Sky Conference last weekend in Montana, and it had nothing to do with basketball.
While the Matadors were in Bozeman, Mont., the temperature was in the 30s and it was snowing.
After a bus ride over 190 miles of often-icy interstate took the team to Missoula, the sun came out.
But the temperature dropped to near zero, with a wind-chill factor of about 20-below.
“This is a nice place to visit,” said point guard Trenton Cross, “but I wouldn’t want to live here.”
When Coach Bobby Braswell flew into Missoula on Friday night, after staying in Los Angeles for his brother’s funeral, the weather caused the plane to circle several times before its first attempt to land was aborted because the approach was not correct.
Further spoiling the trip, Northridge played two of its worst games and lost to Montana State and Montana.
“I’m glad we got [this trip] out of the way,” Braswell said.
