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Sports Central August 14, 2007 Ross Lancaster	Answering the Major/Mid-Major Question Deciding what conferences belong in the mid-major and major categories.
Sports Central February 20, 2007 Seth Doria	NCAA BracketBusters Breakdown Outside of the conference action, the BracketBusters series will prove to be a pivotal moment of the season for several teams.
Sports Central February 22, 2007 Ricky Dimon	Mid-Majors Vie For Chance to Bust Brackets Sorting out the chaos that was the 2007 BracketBuster weekend.
Sports Central March 11, 2010 Vito Curcuru	9 Reasons to Expand the NCAA Tournament It's time for the NCAA tournament to expand to 347.
Sports Central January 22, 2007 Seth Doria	MVC: Most (Over)Valued Conference Here's a thought: maybe the Missouri Valley Conference is overrated. Maybe the top teams just aren't as good as everybody is making them out to be.
Sports Central February 15, 2008 Brian Cox	All the Rage of Mid-Majors Mid-majors are now, in some cases, mainstays around Top 25 polls, and within the respectable range in RPI rankings. Here are five mid-majors teams to be mindful of.
Sports Central February 16, 2011 Jean Neuberger	Worst Case Scenario: Must Win or Get in? Take a look at some mid-major programs that are sitting at or near the top of their conferences.
Sports Central January 30, 2007 Seth Doria	Madness in the Making: Part I A look at teams from the Pac-10, SEC, Colonial, and Missouri Valley conferences.
Sports Central October 13, 2011 Kevin Beane	Week 1 College Basketball Preview As the college football season gets into full swing, we will soon have yet another "favorite sports time of the year" for this writer.
Sports Central November 20, 2007 Jean Neuberger	Hidden Valley You have to love the parody in college basketball.
Sports Central February 3, 2011 Andrew Jones	Tourney Expansion: Is Bigger Better? If expansion of the NCAA college basketball tournament continues, inconsistencies will need to be addressed so that the dream of Cinderella can stay alive.
Sports Central March 28, 2011 Adam Russell	March Madness? How About March Insanity? Who would have thought that this year's Final Four would be comprised of an eight-seed, an 11-seed (both being mid-majors), and a couple traditional powers not seeded No. 1?
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Sports Central March 25, 2009 Ross Lancaster	Missed Opportunities and No Cinderella The media-driven creation of parity in college basketball is dead.
Sports Central February 8, 2011 Joshua Duffy	Calling Cinderella: Who Will Crash This Year's Tournament? Everybody loves an upset. Here are three to keep an eye on during this year's NCAA tournament.
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Sports Central March 14, 2011 Ross Lancaster	How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Selection Committee The NCAA Basketball Selection Committee is in many ways like the Supreme Court. Its decisions are done behind closed doors and many are outraged after the verdicts are reached.
Sports Central March 20, 2006 Piet Van Leer	NCAA Tournament Weekend Wrap-Up A few observations from the NCAA tournament this past weekend.
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Sports Central March 6, 2005 Alan Rubenstein	Championship Week Begins the Madness The 2005 conference tournaments will have many interesting plots and sub-plots to follow. Some teams will be jockeying for a place into the NCAA Tournament, while others want to solidify their seed.
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Sports Central March 19, 2013 Ross Lancaster	The Best Way to Go Dancing If a conference isn't truly sending one of its best teams, the chance of madness goes down. And unless you're that obsessive about making your bracket the "perfect" one, no one should want less of March in for this week.
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Sports Central December 24, 2012 Corrie Trouw	A League of Their Own These are the end days of the current college sports conference structure. Recent developments have all-but-assured the destruction of the Big East, and even best of breeds like the SEC and Big Ten will look much different than their obsessively regional previous incarnations.
Sports Central October 7, 2012 Jonathan Lowe	Early Tourneys: The Underappreciated There are several college basketball tournaments going on during the holiday season. With showcase games all over the country, some can get lost in the shuffle.
Sports Central December 4, 2006 Seth Doria	NCAA Tournament Sleeper Watch Here is a list of "underdog" teams capable of making at least a Sweet 16 run as an eight-seed or lower in the 2007 NCAA tournament.
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Sports Central March 17, 2009 Corrie Trouw	What the Tournament Committee Really Said What did the NCAA tournament selection committee really tell us and the other sects of the basketball world on Selection Sunday?
Sports Central April 27, 2010 Ross Lancaster	Why 68 is Great College basketball fans should be pleased and even optimistic that a 68-team tournament can produce fantastic tournaments.
Sports Central December 4, 2010 Paul Foeller	Cinderella in 2010: December Edition This year may be young, but some teams are starting to show their true colors already. Who can shock the nation-wide audience like Northern Iowa and Cornell did last year?
Sports Central November 1, 2007 Seth Doria	Five Months to March When you look at the Missouri Valley Conference going into the 2007-08 season, it's tempting to focus only on all the talent that's gone.
Sports Central December 17, 2012 Andrew Jones	Enough Already It is time to put an end to all of the distractions that college sports provide. And that needs to happen by telling teams what conference they are in.
Sports Central February 20, 2013 Ross Lancaster	The Season to Expect the Unexpected As a college basketball fan, I can't begin to keep track of the number of times someone has told me, "The regular season doesn't mean anything. I'm just waiting for the tournament to start." No, I would always say or think.
Sports Central January 17, 2008 Ross Lancaster	The Valley of Change At the very top of the college basketball totem pole, things have been exciting, but also, have been according to plan.
Sports Central March 22, 2013 Kevin Beane	The Other Tournaments of March The main one of these, of course, is the NIT, but two more have recently arrived on the slate to ensure that virtually every Division I basketball team with a winning record will playing somewhere with hardware on the line. Let's take a look at each.
Sports Central January 7, 2012 Jonathan Lowe	Becoming a True Cinderella These are the programs that help make March special in the realm of sports. Their journeys to the NCAA tournament, along with their attempts to knock off the traditional giants, help to build the brand of the Big Dance.
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Sports Central February 6, 2008 Jonathan Lowe	Who's Making Headlines? Thank goodness for college basketball. At least something is heating up as we get into February.
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Sports Central January 16, 2013 Greg Suttich	March Madness Starts in January As we near the end of another NFL football season, we start to feel the blues. But then March comes and the event called March Madness gets us back on our couches cheering and fist-bumping over our favorite team while keeping our brackets and a pen within arms reach.