Idaho's first game (in the second round) was nearly a home game, played just west at
Beasley Coliseum in
Pullman on a Sunday afternoon. The opponent was 16th-ranked
Iowa of the
Big Ten, the region's sixth seed, then coached by
Lute Olson. A Final Four team
two years earlier, Iowa won their first-round game handily, but Idaho won this close game by two points, in overtime, and advanced to the Sweet 16. Four days later at the West regional in
Provo, Utah, they met the nation's fourth-ranked team,
Oregon State, the #2 seed in the West region. Idaho had defeated the Beavers by 22 points in December at the Far West Classic in
Portland, but this time the result was far different, as the Beavers won 60–42. OSU was defeated two days later by the region's #1 seed
Georgetown, led by freshman center
Patrick Ewing. (Georgetown advanced to the
national final, where they lost by a point to
North Carolina.) ==Aftermath==