1.   At this rate, the sound of bodies hitting the hardwood court might become as familiar as the squeak of basketball shoes at G. Rollie White Coliseum.

2.   Colangelo stared in silence at the hardwood court Tuesday morning.

3.   Townspeople sat in folding chairs on the hardwood basketball court.

4.   Vlade Divac stood perspiring in the middle of a hardwood court a few days ago, in the middle of a summer melting pot.

5.   The late arrivals know better than to go looking for a vacancy in the rows of wooden folding chairs that cover the hardwood floor court.