1.   Amazingly, and seemingly overnight, basketball has gone from the sport with the youngest major stars to the one with the oldest.

2.   And now, as far as Kentucky basketball goes, as far as the dream of consecutive national championships, the test rides on the team.

3.   Basketball was going to deposit him into the material world of bodyguards and fancy cars, big homes and movie stars.

4.   Basketball is going to take care of itself.

5.   College basketball had gone twenty seasons without having UCLA as its national champion.

6.   For Padilla and Travieso, however, the basketball will go on.

7.   For the first time in a long time, basketball went on the back burner.

8.   How could the Magic get this far and not understand everything championship-level basketball is going to entail?

9.   I should mention that this serious moment comes right before their basketball goes sailing through a car window and off they run in the opposite direction.

10.   If college basketball is ever going to establish itself in Boston, an annual round robin between the city schools makes sense.