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Bubble Insider: Utah's coattails

By Alvin Chang
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

As I learned early on, you dance with the girl that brought you. Soon, Mountain West bubble teams will learn that lesson, too. And they should thank Utah for the invitation. San Diego, UNLV and New Mexico were like nerdy guys who needed to boost their social status to get to the Big Dance -- social status being their strength of schedule (SOS). The way to do that was to be seen with the hot girl and, fortunately, they had one in their conference: Utah. Early on, the Utes had dates with top te ...

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