11.   It dropped back-to-back games last week to Houston and Vancouver.

12.   It dropped one game to Long Beach State, then lost three more at Fullerton.

13.   Kansas State fans protested dropping the game.

14.   Nobody had the gall to think a team that almost never loses would drop back-to-back games to a franchise locked in small-market oblivion.

15.   Phil Glenn watched in amazement as the USC basketball team slowly, painfully and barely dropped another game, the final in a forgetful season.

16.   Penn State has yet to hit anything other than the skids as it has dropped back-to-back games to Southern California and Toledo.

17.   San Francisco dropped two games behind the Cardinals in the wild-card race.

18.   She went to three consecutive NCAA Final Fours with Stanford, a string abruptly ended when the wounded Cardinal dropped a first-round tournament game to Harvard.

19.   Since opening the season with three losses, they have dropped back-to-back games only once.

20.   So far, the Bulls have dropped games to Boston, Cleveland, Phoenix, Washington and Atlanta.