21.   Last week, Panathinaikos won its first European basketball championship.

22.   Notre Dame fans sang and leaped with joy as the Irish claimed their first national basketball title.

23.   South Korea will launch its first professional basketball league next year and teams plan to hire American players, officials said Tuesday.

24.   The Golden Dome at Notre Dame basked in the glow of its first basketball championship Sunday night as students celebrated peacefully throughout campus.

25.   This was the first major basketball game between Yugoslavia and Croatia.

26.   Cosic was among the first European basketball players to make an impact in the United States.