31.   At the start of each school year, the team holds a softball game with basketball coaches, trainers and incoming freshmen against the returning upperclassmen.

32.   Athletic director John David Crow, whose Heisman Trophy was his qualification to hire a basketball coach, picked Idaho coach Kermit Davis.

33.   At the same time, he began his career at CCNY, as the junior varsity basketball coach and the varsity soccer coach.

34.   At the time, Towey had just graduated Florida State Law School, where he was an assistant basketball coach.

35.   Basketball coach Karl Hoseth wore a Gonzaga T-shirt and embroidered Gonzaga socks to school Friday.

36.   Basketball coaches will tell you the most important player on the floor is the point guard.

37.   Basketball coach Jim Harrick did not return phone calls Thursday night.

38.   Basketball coach Elwood Plummer knows about the school as much as anyone.

39.   Baylor basketball coach Dave Bliss told that story yesterday.

40.   Bender, the Washington basketball coach, did the expected routine, meeting with Longhorn athletic director DeLoss Dodds and others in Dallas.