Several underdogs made noise, with Florida Gulf Coast, La Salle and Oregon making the Sweet Sixteen and N0. 9 seed Wichita State going all the way to the Final Four.

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The move also comes amid radical shifts to the education business, with online start-ups and top-flight colleges pushing more and more students to the Internet for low- and n0-cost education, and local school districts across the nation cutting budgets amid financial pressures.

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