31.   Entire families wearing memorial ribbons jammed the Oklahoma State Fair Arena, more often used for rodeos, circuses and high school basketball tournaments.

32.   For Kentucky, the college basketball tournament is as reliable a spring ritual as the Kentucky Derby.

33.   Former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey showed up in the state for a basketball tournament a few weeks back.

34.   Funds come primarily from bowl games, television contracts for football and basketball and the NCAA basketball tournament.

35.   He got himself in trouble during the world basketball tournament in Canada two years ago with his celebratory gestures, some of them downright obscene.

36.   He has discussed it at basketball tournaments in recent weeks, a source said.

37.   HC remains the only New England school to win the NCAA basketball tournament.

38.   His district was already planning to eliminate after-school programs, including math and reading tutorial programs and basketball tournaments for boys and girls, Rodriguez said.

39.   HOOP INFORMATION DREAMS Several World Wide Web sites form a new arena for wallowing in the college basketball championship tournament, which has become a national diversion.

40.   His investigators, with the police, conduct the raids when betting is heavy, as it is now with the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament under way.