21.   Someday the Americans will be shocked in Olympic basketball.

22.   Teresa Edwards, the four-time Olympic basketball player from the University of Georgia was the favorite, with the announcement expected Thursday.

23.   That seems about right for Olympic basketball, spotting all Dream Team opponents that cushion before tipoff.

24.   The brilliant Olympic basketball takeover by Stern, the National Basketball Association commissioner, was a marketing itinerary with time off for a series of game-condition clinics.

25.   The Cardinals will win a Super Bowl before this country loses another Olympic basketball gold medal.

26.   The highest scoring player in Olympic basketball history is not a U.S. athlete but Brazilian player Oscar.

27.   The omission of Coleman and Johnson does not suggest that Olympic basketball has become sanitized.

28.   The Olympic basketball committee will appoint two more players to the team before the Summer Games start in Atlanta.

29.   The strange Olympic basketball tournament, a passionate series of games interrupted by loud exhibitions starring the Dream Team, retained its split personality Thursday night.

30.   The United States had never lost an Olympic basketball game.