71.   Even teams that are not great playoff teams have a shooting guard.

72.   Every team we played was a playoff team, you know.

73.   First came wild-card playoff teams.

74.   Five of their next six games are at home, but all are against playoff teams.

75.   Fitch wanted to win at least one of these past three games against playoff teams but ended up with just pats on the back from opposing coaches.

76.   For one six-play drive in the third quarter, the Cowboys looked like a playoff team.

77.   For the first time in more than two months, the New York Rangers can call themselves a playoff team.

78.   General manager Pat Gillick, the architect of playoff teams in Toronto and Baltimore, has been attempting to trade for a starting pitcher or another bat.

79.   Forward Cedric Ceballos submitted Wednesday that the Mavericks have the makings of a playoff team.

80.   Give Seattle two seasons to gel into a playoff team.