"Our freshmen have only played eight games," Carr said, "and there's nothing that we're afraid to do with them."

It was the last season that freshmen could not play varsity, so we had some very good freshmen on our team.

Seven freshmen played on the 1995-96 team that won 30 games and played in the national championship match, losing to Michigan.

The three freshmen played the Garden as if they had spent years on this sort of grand stage.

Rutgers is still a young team - 18 freshmen played last Saturday - and they may not know they are supposed to lose.

In fact the 6-foot-6-inch freshman has played like a senior for Pitt.

The freshmen played on Thursday nights and drew more fans than most varsities.

Berenson's freshmen played the sophomore class in the first women's collegiate basketball game held on 22 March 1893.

He had just taken four freshmen and two sophomores to play the fourth-ranked team in the country.

"When my two freshmen are playing like that, it brings everybody together," Krzyzewski said.