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Chasing the Valley

By Andy Glockner
ESPN.com

Friday, August 24, 2007

Scanning the HorizonAP Photo/Al BehrmanWright State beat Butler for the conference title but Butler got all the national attention with a Sweet 16 run. Want to know when a mid-major conference is truly under-the-radar? When it has won NCAA Tournament games in seven of the last 10 seasons and made three Sweet 16s in the past five, and the biggest buzz the league gets is when one of its teams wins a preseason tournament. The Horizon League saw Butler make the Sweet 16 in 2003. Then Wisconsin- ...

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