1.   Bluegrass basketball junkies reminisce about Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Goose Givens and Rick Pitino.

2.   Dickau is a basketball junkie.

3.   For Sherman, an avowed basketball junkie, it was a revelation.

4.   Geno Auriemma and Jim Foster grew up as basketball junkies and buddies in the Philadelphia suburbs.

5.   The argument could be made that Pitino is the perfect U.K. coach, an obsessive basketball junkie for an insatiable basketball audience.

6.   The private Spider is an unreconstructed basketball junkie who spends summers haunting playgrounds from Philly to Boston watching the game he loves.

7.   There are two compelling reasons for local basketball junkies to take in the high school jamboree at Lynn English High School next Friday night.