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Focuses on a variety of topics, pertaining to college basketball. How the undermanned University of Cincinnati keeps winning, in part to the performance of player Ruben Patterson, who stayed in shape during his fourteen-game suspension; How the University of Minnesota is having one of the worst follow-up seasons to a Final Four appearance ever; The worst drop-offs since 1975 and what happened to cause them; Other topics. INSETS: Kevin Turner, by Franz Lidz;Matchup of the week, by Seth Davis.

Presents scouting reports for women's college basketball during the 1997-1998 season. The eight teams, including Louisiana Tech, which is favored to win the Final Four, University of Tennessee, Stanford University, University of North Carolina and others; `Sports Illustrated's' predictions as to which schools have the best chance of finishing first.

States that knee injuries of the most serious kind, tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), one of two central ligaments that support the knee, are virtually epidemic in women's college basketball. Where the evidence comes from; How women basketball players are four times more likely than men to suffer an ACL injury.

The article presents a reprint of the article "Bringing Up the D Word," by Dana Gelin in the April 8, 1996 issue of "Sports Illustrated." The article discusses the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team and their victory against the University of Georgia Bulldogs in the 1996 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship game. The success of coach Pat Summitt and the performances of players Chamique Holdsclaw and Michelle Marciniak are also discussed.