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C-USA poised to clean up come March

By Pat Forde
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

In the zero-sum game that is college basketball, one league's misfortune can be another's lucky break. Thus we find Conference USA dancing over the prone carcasses of the Big Ten and Pacific-10. The latter two leagues appear to be in the process of throwing away some of the NCAA Tournament bids they're accustomed to -- and C-USA is positioned to catch them. Ever since the tournament expanded from 48 to 64 in 1985, the Big Ten has placed at least five teams in the field. Nine times it placed si ...

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