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Teams to watch as 2009-10 unfolds

By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Saturday, November 7, 2009

The last time a team from beyond the spotlight of the major conferences reached the Final Four, it clinched its trip to the sport's showcase on a court in Spokane, Wash. Eight years after the school then known as Southwest Missouri State pulled off the feat in the city four hours east of Seattle, another Final Four run could begin there. Meet Gonzaga, a team whose pursuit of elite status could shake up the landscape of a basketball season that Connecticut and Stanford otherwise threaten to wa ...

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