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Shockers poised to become national name

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Monday, October 16, 2006

WICHITA, Kan. -- When you make the 161-mile drive from Lawrence to Wichita, you sense you're leaving one of the most passionate places in college basketball -- and easily one of its top five jobs -- for destination unknown. The rolling wheat fields, the few cows that dot the landscape, the endless straightaway highway, make you wonder whether there really could be something special, something worth it at the end of this mind-numbing stretch. When you arrive back into civilization, though -- pu ...

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