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Champ Week: Setting up Week 1

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

EDITOR'S NOTE: This primer only includes conference tournaments that start this week. Check back next week for a rundown of the rest of the leagues. The lower-profile conferences might be headed for their lowest number of at-large berths. But that doesn't mean the champs will not have a shot at upsets in the NCAA. Plenty of teams are competing for automatic berths in lower- and mid-major conference tournaments this week, and many could win a game in the first round of the NCAAs: teams like But ...

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