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11/13/2007 04:47:00 PM

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SI's Preview Issue dropped today, with five regional covers. Gardner-Webb/Mercer barely missed the cut. Our Top 20 -- as voted on by the SI panel -- is here.

Carolina, Duke, Texas and Texas A&M are mine, as is the "rivalry" bit that's teased on the cover. But that's a four-page foldout you'll have to peruse in print.

(A clarification for all the comments-section folk complaining about the lack of Duke-UNC or Kentucky-Louisville covers ... the concept inside the magazine is NEW rivalries, not classic ones. So their omission was intentional. Georgetown-'Cuse, obviously, is not new, but was included as a "reheated" rivalry after going through a down period for much of the decade.)

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Posted: 5:41 PM   by Blogger Michael
You mention college hoops rivalries, and forget my Tar Heels against the Dookies?

I know Duke is due for a down year, but the Tar Heels are preseason #1, so I'm pretty sure they should be on a cover. And Syracuse isn't even ranked, so Duke-UNC should've replaced that one.
Posted: 7:50 PM   by Anonymous Anonymous
how is carolina-duke not on a cover?
Posted: 9:09 PM   by Anonymous Anonymous
What? No Kansas VS. Kansas State!!!!

Thanks...
Posted: 11:26 PM   by Anonymous Big Ten Fan
I live in Missouri, and as a Hoosier fan and much of my family being Illini fans, I BETTER get the Hoosier - Illini one.

GO HOOSIERS! GO BIG TEN (except Purdue, of course)!
Posted: 9:10 AM   by Anonymous jonah
Oklahoma State vs Kansas is a bigger rivalry than Texas A&M/Texas in hoops.

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Posted: 12:14 PM   by Blogger John
Illinois and Indiana? Yawn. Go Bucks.
Posted: 1:00 PM   by Anonymous Chad
Duke-UNC is always on the cover. Everyone is sick of Duke-UNC. Syracuse-Georgetown is a rivalry with a great history. Now that Georgetown is "back" the rivalry is as hot as ever. I'm not saying Duke-UNC isn't a good rivalry, I think it is probably the best in college b-ball. It's just that people are getting tired of seeing them on the cover of every publication.
Posted: 1:48 PM   by Anonymous Anonymous
where is the louisville kentucky rivalry.... missed that one for sure.... how do you pick tennesee and memphis, but not louisville and kentucky
Posted: 2:13 PM   by Anonymous Bookish
Good selections. Enough Carolina/Duke stuff - we get it, you're a good rivalry. Other people play ball, too.
Posted: 3:37 PM   by Anonymous Anonymous
too bad USC isn't doing too much to help their rivalry with UCLA...what about the 90's classic Arizona-UCLA?
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