11.   College basketball teams are hoping to hold parts together with chewing gum and baling wire and appeals and briefs just to get through the national tournament.

12.   Enough, in fact, to win the national tournament last month.

13.   Except in the national tournament.

14.   Friends had warned Texas Tech coach James Dickey that the first game of the national tournament is the toughest, particularly for higher-seeded teams.

15.   He has been named the Met PGA player of the year four times and has won several national tournaments.

16.   He was on the squad that reached the national tournament semifinals.

17.   His Texas Tech basketball team is expected to be included in the national tournament Sunday night.

18.   His pressing defense and patient backdoor offense stymied high-scoring opponents and helped Princeton, of the Ivy League, become dangerous in national tournaments.

19.   Hogarth said national tournaments such as the PubLinks demonstrate how high the quality of play can be below the professional level.

20.   I told our ballclub that you play yourself into the national tournament, that is an achievement.