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Message: [QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 4016000, member: 168"] Their geographic footprint would be the worst reason to take them. They're obviously better than all but UConn and Nova, and arguably better than Georgetown. In a world where you're building from scratch, you take them. In this world, we're not building from scratch, so it's not necessarily worthwhile to compare them to the weakest members of the conference (cough cough DePaul), but to think about whether their basketball team would bring money and eyeballs even in a down year. Casual fans aren't going to turn on a West Virginia basketball at some large number. They will for Kansas though. Neither of these things are likely to happen, though. [/QUOTE]