21.   About this time last year, Joe Smith was contemplating leaving the University of Maryland after his sophomore year to enter the NBA draft.

22.   After his family moved to Martinsville before his sophomore year in high school, Wooden became a high school star and an all-American at Purdue.

23.   After his sophomore year at Savannah State, he was offered a chance to jump ship, to play for a national powerhouse at the University of Miami.

24.   After his sophomore year in college, The Cheese Shop offered to let him run his own outlet.

25.   After that he will probably complete the math curriculum at Troy schools by his sophomore year, then go elsewhere to study math.

26.   After winning a scholarship to Stanford, Gioia decided to pursue music composition and spent his sophomore year in Vienna studying German music and literature.

27.   All my life, until my sophomore year in high school, I felt like it was going to be hockey.

28.   Allen, a lefthanded shot and former Globe All-Scholastic, plans to return to BC for his sophomore year.

29.   Bradley Van Hoorn showed up for his sophomore year at Yale with a mounted caribou head, a gift from his father.

30.   But a camping trip during his sophomore year in college to Woodland Valley, during which he hiked to Wittenberg and Giant Ledge, changed him forever.