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More dangerous than ever: if you insist on calling Gonzaga a mid-major, then the NBA is basketball's only high-major league.(College Basketball)(National Basketball Association)

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| January 14, 2005 | DeCourcy, Mike | COPYRIGHT 2005 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

As of New Year's Day, 2005, they had been with us for precisely 2,121 days. They are nothing like the cicadas, which pop up every 17 years and make one heck of a racket, then disappear quietly. No, these pesky critters are sticking around.

The Zags arrived in March 1999, when they dusted off Pac-10 champion Stanford and reached their first Sweet 16. Their imminent extinction has been predicted many times since, most prominently during the recent offseason. But the current Gonzaga players haven't merely extended the chain of excellence. Even with a disappointing defeat at Missouri, this group just completed the best preconference season run in the program's ...

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