101.   So who are these five guys, who are relatively unknown outside the lightly populated world of USC basketball fans?

102.   Sometimes it takes a basketball fan to know what others want.

103.   Sunday is a big day in Athens for Greek basketball fans.

104.   Ted appeared at an exhibit and challenged basketball fans to a free-throw shooting contest.

105.   Television is a huge factor, too, because basketball fans know the teams so much better, having seen them on the tube.

106.   That wind out of the north you thought you felt Tuesday night was actually a sigh of relief from basketball fans here and across the country.

107.   The Bulldogs are overachievers, embraced across the country by college basketball fans who hope Gonzaga can advance to the Final Four with a victory over Connecticut Saturday.

108.   The fair-weather clientele attracted by the decade-long pricing out of the real basketball fans deserted the Garden for hotter spots in town.

109.   The NBA has bred entertainment fans, not necessarily basketball fans.

110.   The prospect of getting answers to these questions is intriguing enough to draw the reader through much material familiar to any basketball fan or reader of the financial pages.