West Virginia becoming Sweet 16 fixture
Published 3/23/2008 at SI.com - NCAA Basketball
WASHINGTON D.C. -- Now that the West Virginia Mountaineers are moving on to their third Sweet 16 in the past four years, now that their fans are preparing to descend on Phoenix for the second time in the past three months (having watched their football team trounce Oklahoma in January's Fiesta Bowl), the time has come to ask a once-blasphemous question.
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