April 14, 2006
In College Basketball, the Year of the Little Guy
Upset wins by small-conference teams defined the men's tournament. Experts suggest 6 ways those teams' victories might alter the sport.
Lamar Butler and his George Mason University teammates played their regular-season home games this year before an average crowd of 4,533 fans.
But then the team won four games in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's men's basketball tournament, upsetting perennial powers Michigan State University, the University of North Carolina at
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