Which makes it so hard to believe that Indiana, one of the marquee programs in the sport, has not appeared in the AP top 25 poll since March 10, 2008 a dry spell of 1, 372 days, the longest in school history.

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Yet the amount of coverage devoted to the issue of late - and the way that Chinese media tend to concentrate their efforts on areas where problems do exist - makes it hard to believe that this kind of corruption is already a thing of the past.

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