[KUJustin]

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George Mason in the final four?

stuff like this does happen ever so often.

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The power structure in College football is much much different than in Basketball.

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This is why I'm so stunned by some of the college basketball teams that manage to be terrible year-after-year.

I believe at one point KSU's consecutive losses to KU got up to 34. That's just mind-boggling. They currently haven't beaten us at their home in 24 years. Of course, it looks like even they will achieve some success this year, but it's just amazing how bad they were for 15+ years.

There are too many reasons to list, but it's just not that hard to be good from time to time. I think this is one of the reasons that most people can name 10-15 "great" all-time football programs, but the list for basketball drops off hard after 4 or 5. The fact that it's easy to have occasional success also means it's hard to maintain dominance over time.