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79 Percentage of NCAA athletes who began school in 2001 who have received degrees within six years, an alltime one-year high.

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College Basketball With humility, experience and grit, Washington State is off to its best start in 72 seasons • Syracuse thrives with a third freshman in the lineup

Derrick Low's elaborate tattoo speaks of his Hawaiian heritage

1 The national coach of the year will come from the Pac-10. A case can be made for UCLA's Ben Howland, Washington State's Tony Bennett and USC's Tim Floyd, but the choice here is Oregon's Ernie Kent (right), who had...