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that will mean little when they tip it off again the musketeers are getting weber state out of ogden utah.....the wildcats are the champions of the big sky conference. they won 26 games this season and are in the tournament for the second time in three years. full coverage of the musketeers in st louis. chris riva, philip lee and i will be at all the xavier hot spots starting wednesday. the uc bearcats had more hearbreak than most...but they can make up for up this week when they begin tournament play at the west reigonal in spokane. there were doubts about uc in the past couple of it's the bearcats up against the st joseph hawks..a team we used to see a lot when xavier was in the atlantic ten conference. phil martelli is still the coach there and is still winning...the hawks won 27 times this season. keenen singleton gets the frequent flyer points...he's on his way to spokane to cover the bearcats. bearcats.meanwhile the kentucky wildcats won the sec tournament....and coach cal wonders why they ever bothered because they ended up with a number four seed and he thought it should have been

it sounds too good to be true but it wasn't always that way in ogden, utah. the mayor is joining -- mary thompson is joining us with more. >> ogden, of course, is where the union pacific railroads linked up in the elate 1800s, earning the city junction city nickname. when people st abandon they started to abandon ogden until it struck olympic gold. while still a work in progress it has a diverse economy and outdoor recreation firms. west of the ba r wasatch mountains and 40 miles from salt lake city, businesses come to ogden driven by low cost and scenic settings. a marked contrast from 16 years ago when the city tried to bring businesses back. >> when we first started, we would recruit anyone we could get. >> while ogden streets reflected the rail hubs, when it hosted the twoi 2002 olympic downhill events they started to sell companies on the natural beauty. >> the events we brought in specifically highlighted rivers, trails and mountains. >> reporter: selling a lifestyle it sold businesses on an initial project, a converted military firms ranging from e insu

sounds too good to be true but wasn't always that way in ogden utah. mary thompson is there and joins us with more. hi, mary. >> reporter: hey there, i'm standing outside union station. you might not ogden of course is where the union pacific railroads linked up in the late 1800s earning the nickname junction city. when people started abandoning railroads for autos and planes they started abandoning ogden until it struck olympic gold. it has diverse economy and outdoor recreation firms. 40 miles north of salt lake city, low costs and scenic settings, a marked contrast when the city first tried to bring businesses back. >> when we first started, we would recruit anybody we could get. >> reporter: ogden streets reflect the hay day as a rail hub, blit reflected the hard time. when it hosted the downhill events, they began selling companies on the natural beauty. >> the events we brought in specifically highlighted our rivers and trails and mountains and everything else. >> reporter: it also sold businesses on one of its initial projects, a depot now home t

wasatch mountains, one of ogden, utah's latest project is under construction. >> this is what we callyle park. >> reporter: known as the business exchange the home of the city's former stockyard will soon house some of its former 30 outdoor recreation firms, firms like the makers of bike parts and products. the park is part of a decades long plan to revive ogden which relies and for a set times, schools and other taxing entries in the project's district give up taxes derived from any increases in property values and the money used for improvements like widening roads and removing blight all in the aim of making the location better for business. >> the school district benefits and the county benefits and we benefit. >> reporter: among the benefits, an unemployment rate of just over 4% and a 20% increase in the city's median income since 2000. now it's also earned ogden accolades including being named one of "forbes" best place for businesses and careers. companies agree they are among the businesses that have operations here in ogden. >> way cheaper than california. mar he, did you get