The on court success of the Mid-Major coaches who made the list was equally impressive.
The 20 most valuable teams span seven conferences, and include one team from the mid-major Atlantic 10.
Wichita State has gone from a ninth-seeded mid-major aiming to win an NCAA game to an unexpected arrival in the Final Four.
Aspire Group plans to announce agreements with five more schools in the coming weeks, including a couple of mid-major programs, according to CEO Bernie Mullin.
But six of those seven mid-major appearances have occurred since 2006, when the BCS grew to five annual games (from four) by adding a stand-alone national-title game.
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Eleven points in a 13-0 run for fifth-seeded Michigan State, providing a cushion the Spartans would need in the second half against a mid-major known for its first-round upsets.
This year's royal ascent has less to do with Carolina and Kentucky than it does the renaissance of Indiana and North Carolina State, two programs that squeezed out the usual mid-major darlings.
"Cinderella found one glass skipper, " said Gregg Marshall, coach of Wichita State, which beat No. 1-seeded Gonzaga and No. 2 Ohio State on its way to adding some mid-major mojo to the Final Four.
Mid-Major, as defined by the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25, are schools that play in the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Great West, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, WAC, and West Coast.
As of mid-October, major stock indices have returned in the range of sixteen percent.
Earlier the inquiry heard from Conservative MP Stephen Dorrell, who was national heritage secretary in the mid-90s under John Major, with responsibility for media policy.
Contrast all this with mid-teens multiples for major industrials like Caterpillar, Cummins and Boeing where the market anticipates a rebound in revenues with profit margin enhancement.
"We have established that the genetic foundations for modern Europe were only established in the Mid-Neolithic, after this major genetic transition around 4000 years ago, " said co-author Dr Wolfgang Haak.
My firm, CEO to CEO, is a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the skills of mid-market CEOs who are navigating major shifts in their business or marketplace.
While the Japanese yen, Canadian dollar and the euro have risen 33%, 43% and 73% against the dollar since mid-2001, all have registered major declines against the more objective measure, gold.
The recent ITA report raises the specter of the energy crisis of the mid-1970s to indicate that "major long-term disruptions in fuel supplies can have serious economic implications, " because of the reliance of various regions on each other.
Multi-year contracts worth seven or eight figures are a product of the free agency era, which began in some form for most major sports in the mid-1970s.
Following Monday's action - when an estimated 60, 000 workers downed their tools in Germany's first major strike since the mid-1990s - there was little hope of a speedy resolution.
During the mid-19th century, Maryland was a major immigration center, and its ethnic diversity (Maryland has a higher percentage of black residents -- 25 percent -- than any state outside the South) still sets it apart from many Southern regions.
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Their merchandising sales have consistently ranked in the top five of the 30 Major League teams since the mid-1990s.
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One notorious example came when just about every major drug company in the mid-1990s rushed to develop drugs to block a cancer-causing gene called ras.
The last major snowstorm to hit the mid-Atlantic, in January 2011, was dubbed "snowmageddon", dumping about 5in of snow in Washington DC and 7.5in in Baltimore.
But what chance does a mid-calorie soda stand in a battle against major historical forces like urban sprawl and white collar jobs taking over those in factories and on the farm?
Its report, released in mid-April, is extraordinarily detailed, naming Major-General Salim Saleh, the brother of Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, among the senior Ugandan and Rwandan commanders whom it accuses of stealing diamonds, gold, coltan (a mineral), timber and ivory.
England and Portugal are the only major leagues in Europe without a mid-season break.
The Japanese currency's fall of nearly 17% from mid-November until last week was seen as a major factor pushing stocks higher.
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