31.   In the Big East tournament semifinal game against Syracuse, Hamilton spent the final eight minutes on the bench in favor of Artest, a brilliant freshman.

32.   In the meantime, Beaury hopes to get in a little coaching and win some NCAA tournament games between phone calls.

33.   In the first home tournament game since the night Hank Gathers died seven years ago, someone was looking down on the Loyola Marymount basketball team.

34.   Indiana is the team that crawls and trudges along, but the last laugh through five NCAA tournament games has belonged to the Hoosiers.

35.   Indiana will plays Oklahoma in an NCAA tournament semifinal game next Saturday in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

36.   It outbid local commercial stations in the state for three tournament games.

37.   It was the second straight tournament game in which the Razorbacks needed overtime to win, after winning their opener in the sub-regionals a week ago by one point.

38.   It was one of the best, most exciting college basketball tournament games of this or any year.

39.   Kansas, after Kentucky and North Carolina, has won more NCAA tournament games than any other school.

40.   Last year, during tournament games across the continent, UMass and UConn fans were calling for each other.