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Not long ago, there was a time when Mid-Major programs in men’s college basketball could compete and hang around with the blue bloods. Think back to the early 2010s, when Butler University went to back-to-back national championships under coach Brad Stevens. In 2008, the Memphis Tigers came storming out of Conference-USA en route to the national championship game.

Both the Bulldogs and Tigers were led by future NBA stars Gordon Hayward and Derrick Rose. The Tigers also had future Los Angeles Clippers forward Chris Douglas-Roberts, and the Bulldogs had point guard Shelvin Mack, who embarked on an eight-year career in the league.

But what if these players never found their way to the smaller programs? What if Hayward and Rose started out at Duke and Kansas? Instead of playing the majority of their careers in the Horizon League and CUSA, what if Mack and Douglas-Roberts left midway through their collegiate careers in search of a larger role on a larger program – and a larger check.

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📰 Gage Wellman
📸 Yasmeen Matthews

MAC men’s basketball teams decimated from transfer portal Not long ago, there was a time when Mid-Major programs in men’s college basketball could compete and hang around with the blue bloods. Think back to the early 2010s, when...

Kent State residents voiced concern after learning some roads remain open nearby.

“I just feel suspicious going to class without being redirected once,” one student remarked. “A clear route these days just feels a little too easy.”

With traffic cones filling up the streets, a national shortage of the color “orange” may be looming for the rest of the country. Supply chain experts are dragging their feet on confirming the crisis, but many students say the evidence can no longer be ignored.

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📰 Tanner Smith
📷 Braeden Joyce

Satire Story: The looming national traffic cone shortage; is Kent to blame? Kent State residents voiced concern after learning some roads remain open nearby. “I just feel suspicious going to class without being redirected once,” one student remarked. “A clear route these...