31.   A basketball tournament can be a cornerstone-type event.

32.   A tournament is a series of games, and each time a team wins, that team advances to the next round.

33.   A voice sang out, offering the accepted belief that the tournament is not a major on the Senior calendar.

34.   Actually, this tournament is a tuneup for far more profitable competition on the tour at Indian Wells, Calif., and Key Biscayne, Fla.

35.   All fun aside, once the tournament was over, the Major League Players Association was still on strike without a resolution in sight.

36.   All of which will no doubt create further controversy that the tournament is being dominated by the power conferences.

37.   But Calhoun knows that in the eyes of many, the tournament is the only thing that matters.

38.   But does anyone think a tournament is necessary to crown Connecticut as the conference champion and prime hope for the national title?

39.   But first, there was the tournament, with teams at the amateur level.

40.   But not all tournaments are so fortunate.