1.   And instead of accomplishing their goal of repeating as national champs, the Sun Devils had to settle for a tie for fifth.

2.   Arizona, fast becoming the sleeper choice as national champ, will face Florida in Tempe, a two-hour drive from Tucson.

3.   At Hanover, N.H., Brown, defending Eastern Sprint, IRA and national champ, defeated Dartmouth in heavyweight action.

4.   But the top-ranked U.S. competitor, four-time national champ John Roethlisberger, declined to join his peers in administering self-inflicted wounds.

5.   But when the final buzzer sounded the battle-tested team that has struggled under the pressure of being national champs all this season had survived.

6.   Chris Drury and Jay Pandolfo each scored a pair of goals for the defending national champs.

7.   Davis, it should be noted, had been national champ twice before.

8.   Did it produce a national champ?

9.   Dunn, the gray-haired matriarch whose firing at Purdue set the dominoes in motion, was going to watch two of her former players crowned national champs.

10.   Even against defending national champ Connecticut, the Aggies have hope.