As top Giant Killer candidates continue to get swallowed up by the giant sinkhole that is conference tournament season, this list grows thinner by the day. Take Denver. The Pioneers rated as our third-best Giant Killer when we examined the model on Thursday morning. By the afternoon, they were gone, the victims of 12-win Texas State in the WAC quarterfinals.
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