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These matchups don't happen often

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- If this matchup was left up to Illinois and Wake Forest, it might not have happened. Certainly not on the first day of December. Sure, big-time Top 25 games can be booked as home-and-home series. In a couple of weeks, the top-ranked Deacons play No. 15 Texas. But No. 1 vs. No. 3, this early in the season, as a one-off contest where one team is playing a true road game, is almost unheard of in recent college basketball. Top-five teams haven't ...

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