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It happened again, Memphis fans: Someone mentioned "Big East" and "Memphis" in the same sentence. The wheels of speculation concerning the Tigers' conference future are once again grinding. (Did they ever stop?)
It came last Wednesday afternoon from a credible enough source: a reporter at the Providence Journal, a guy who covers a Big East school and doesn't seem like a peddler of unsubstantiated rumors. And it wasn't met with a steadfast denial, either. When our Jason Smith contacted U of M athletic director R.C. Johnson shortly before Wednesday night's basketball game at Southern Miss, he said "nothing's changed on our end" -- then quickly asked what the crowd was looking like in Hattiesburg.
Asked again on Friday afternoon, he said "nothing has changed at...
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