21.   The game serves as a measuring stick for Jackson against the player he considers one of his true friends.

22.   The Kentucky game would serve as an appropriate and ironic learning tool in the education of these Bruins.

23.   Their game served as a warm-up to the highly anticipated showdown between two teams expected to contend for the national championship.

24.   These final nine games will serve as a lab experiment of sorts, in which the Rockets attempt to capture their playoff chemistry in a bottle.

25.   This game served as a collective retort.

26.   We will play because our games can serve as a healing force.

27.   Which meant the game would serve as a lesson.

28.   Would the game serve as a rallying point for the Eagles?

29.   Let the games serve as a catalyst for change.

30.   Now those games will serve as a lead-in for the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes.