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So, just what makes a team 'mid-major'?

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 31, 2002

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Mark Few hates the term, can't stand it, doesn't want to hear it and, quite frankly, doesn't understand why anyone would think Gonzaga is still a mid-major program. "It's a very poor descriptor for college basketball and has nothing to do with describing the level of a team's play and everything to do with describing the capital campaigns of the university," the feisty Gonzaga coach said. "I just laugh. If you're going to have a mid-major poll then you might as well have pol ...

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