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Syracuse is the realm's undisputed top team as 2011 winds down, yet the first name associated with the Orange is Bernie Nice.
Xavier is this year's mid-major juggernaut, yet word association labels the Musketeers as "thugs" before any other sterling to describe their ascension to the precipitous of the Top 10.
The confines of the court has showcased college basketball's most appropriate with clean, often times spectacular play due in large part to a better than average returning crop of collegiate talent. After the whistle and off the court, the mellow's first few months have been marred by a child molestation scandal that has rocked one of the domain's best programs and questioned the handling of the delicate, troubling proceeding by a Hall of Fame coach as well as a last-minute brawl between cross-burgh rivals Xavier and Cincinnati that left pools of blood on the knock over and plenty more on the hands of each team since.
The Big 12 has handed the top target to Missouri, a set without an inside presence but a dangerous collection of perimeter talent and a motor coach trying to prove his worth. Names like Indiana, Louisville, Georgetown and Michigan are back in the patriotic conscience, while Murray State, UNLV and Virginia have broken into the argument.
Source: Fox News