At 10:02 PM -0400 5/30/01, Frank R Abate wrote: >In women's basketball, there is some use of "match-up defense" as a >gender-neutral synonym for "man-to-man defense". > Might lead to some confusion. "Match-up" is used widely for a type of zone defense (the antithesis of man-on-man or man defense) used e.g. by John Chaney at Temple. larry