1.   Always seeming a defensive stand away from victory in the fourth quarter, it finally proved too much to muster for USC.

2.   A strong defensive stand could have turned the momentum.

3.   After a defensive stand, Ewing followed moments later with his biggest shot of the game.

4.   After the timeout, the Knicks mounted a remarkable defensive stand that featured Ewing and Mason blocking consecutive shots by Mark Bryant.

5.   Boston matched baskets with the Magic for the first half of the fourth, but could not make the necessary defensive stand to get back in the game.

6.   But Johnson soon made his defensive stand.

7.   But the Tigers made a key defensive stand, stopping Columbia on downs.

8.   But when the Frogs needed two defensive stands in the fourth quarter, they got both.

9.   By first-half onslaught or last-minute defensive stand.

10.   Drew Bledsoe, who has struggled with the timing of the new offense, was not about to let this defensive stand go unrewarded.