11.   Count championships, scoring titles, All-Defensive team selections, performances in the clutch . . . Jordan is the best ever.

12.   Final team selections will be made by late fall.

13.   Hurns, an NCAA all-tournament team selection, left Purdue during the summer and played at an Illinois junior college in the fall.

14.   Johan Bruyneel, the U.S.P.S. team director, said Tour experience rather than potential played a huge part in team selection.

15.   The current bowl contracts leave team selection solely up to the bowls.

16.   The US national team has set some high standards and will not likely improve very much while depending on the current system of team selection.

17.   Those were lost years for guard Felipe Lopez, a Big East first team selection.

18.   When Happy is rejected at hockey team selections for the umpteenth time, he promptly punches out the man who does the selecting.

19.   Patil said India, unlike Australia, could not afford to take too many chances in team selection.

20.   Passarella has come under fire in Argentina over team selection since Argentina failed to get past the quarter-finals of the Copa America in July.