11.   High-school freshmen will have to start preparing now for a new battery of stiff Regents exams that they will be required to pass before they can graduate.

12.   Last season was not typical because the freshmen had to play, ready or not.

13.   New players, with the bold, unknowing confidence only freshmen can have, were suddenly angry, embarrassed and confused.

14.   Other freshmen have less financial pressure.

15.   Reserve Todd Helton had been ineffective, as had true freshman Branndon Stewart.

16.   Some incoming freshmen may have to help there.

17.   The freshman had four turnovers and just two assists.

18.   The freshmen have the hardest time because they were closest to him.

19.   The freshmen had no fear at all.

20.   The freshmen have good reason not to miss the Great Hall.