21.   The playoff bug, they argue, mainly afflicts athletics directors who once coached basketball and are smitten with its system.

22.   The thing about him is he loves coaching basketball, being in the gym.

23.   There is no more time available for him to coach high school basketball.

24.   To pay his bills, he coached high school basketball for a year.

25.   You have the ego of a South American general and the social graces of a mountain lion, but you can really coach basketball.

26.   He has lived in Wisconsin since childhood, and he spent a decade coaching high school basketball in the state before moving to Stevens Point.

27.   In the middle of it stands Lower Merion High School, where Gregg Downer coaches basketball and Kobe Bryant once played.

28.   Johnson, who taught special education and coached basketball at Skinner Middle School, was beaten unconscious with a rock and shoe.

29.   Steve Belko, who coached basketball at Idaho State and Oregon and was a former commissioner of the Big Sky Conference, died Friday.