31.   Early-round matchups would be set according to seedings based on regular-season won-lost records just as they are now.

32.   Either matchup would be interesting because McKart and Mullings are very capable fighters.

33.   For BC, matchups will be the key.

34.   For those interested in management, there will be the matchup of titles on the sideline.

35.   For Utah, the matchup Monday is not as daunting as we once may have thought.

36.   From a boxing standpoint, the matchup would be intriguing.

37.   From the national perspective, the Seattle-Utah matchup is the junior varsity series.

38.   If it all does boil down to a Buffalo-Detroit final, the defining matchup would be Fedorov-Hasek.

39.   If the seedings hold up, the semifinal matchups there will be Connecticut against George Washington and Stanford against Old Dominion.

40.   If the Knicks-Heat matchup was prime-time drama, the Knicks-Hawks is akin to MacNeil and Lehrer reuniting.