1.   To the west in San Diego, the drop zone team are continually checking conditons.

2.   Dallas is, like San Francisco was, primarily a zone defense coverage team.

3.   Kansas City and Minnesota are the two candidates to join the Texas Rangers as a Central time zone team in a division otherwise populated by Pacific zone teams.

4.   Proof of the revival came last spring, when Syracuse became the first conventional zone team to reach the Final Four this decade.

5.   Teams that usually get a lot of turnovers are zone teams.

6.   Australia will play the fourth-ranked Asian zone team, yet to be determined, over two legs for a place in the World Cup finals next year.

7.   Australia will play the fourth-ranked Asian zone team, yet to be determined, over two legs for a place in the finals.