81.   Next week in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, he expects that his team will confront zone defenses and slow-down tactics.

82.   New England came out and went to a conservative and seldom-used soft zone defense instead of the aggressive approach it has had all season.

83.   Next, we widen the goal to create more scoring, outlaw zone defenses, and allow unlimited substitutions.

84.   NBA referees met with the team Sunday morning to explain the new rules, including the allowance of zone defenses.

85.   Not -- NBA teams that actually play zone defense.

86.   No one knows for sure what is going to happen with the new rules this year allowing zone defense.

87.   Now he has to contend with a willing but inexperienced set of playmates, plus the zone defense, a miserable and snooze-inducing new NBA wrinkle.

88.   Now teams are throwing more zone defenses at him and taking away the deep ball.

89.   Ohio mixed a patient offense and a zone defense to force the slowest pace UCLA has faced this season.

90.   Of more than two dozen players interviewed, only one was in favor of allowing zone defenses.