71.   Also hired as assistants were Tom Penders Jr., son of university of Texas basketball coach Tom Penders and Jerry Degregorio, a local high school athletic director.

72.   Brooks revealed how he was on a panel in Worcester, Mass. a few years back with both Thompson and former North Carolina great basketball coach Dean Smith.

73.   --Bruiser Flint, new Drexel basketball coach, sounds more suited for Michigan State football.

74.   But basketball coaches are generally annoyed by the same thing.

75.   But he is a basketball coach, too.

76.   But it all starts with basketball, and the record amply demonstrates that Smith is a great basketball coach.

77.   But instead of hitting a turn in the market, the Houston teacher and former basketball coach missed the investment hoop big time.

78.   But Ned Sampson was more than a basketball coach.

79.   But the admirers of Mike Krzyzewski, the basketball coach at Duke, believe that he has come closer than any of his peers.

80.   But the visit Walton had Monday with the former UCLA basketball coach at his condo in Encino darn near left him speechless.