The Oregon State Beavers (19-12) are widely expected to be selected to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, breaking a drought of 26 years. It’s been a long time — 9,499 days — since that Selection Sunday in March 1990, and it was a different world back then. Here’s a look at what was happening in world affairs, sports and pop culture the last time the Beavers, led by Gary Payton, made the Big Dance.
The Oregon State Beavers (19-12) are widely expected to be selected to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, breaking a drought of 26 years.