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FOR A CITY that is supposed to be a football town, there has been a lot of discussion about college basketball on Columbia’s radio and television stations the past week. It served to confirm what most of us knew: There is a huge fan base that is eager to support a successful USC basketball program.  Those who doubt that should check out the many local sports-talk radio shows. I spent much of this week switching among those shows to listen to the comments of fans and hosts.  It began a week ago when TV and radio crews and newspaper reporters gathered for Dave Odom’s news conference to announce his intention to step down as USC’s basketball coach at the end of this season. According to Odom, one of his reasons for making the announcement midseason was so fans would quit booing him and concentrate their energy on cheering the players