The jury in Anucha Browne Sanders?s lawsuit against Knicks Coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden deliberated for seven and a half hours yesterday, asked repeatedly for clarification and hundreds of pages of testimony, but did not reach a verdict.

The jurors will return Monday to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan to resume deliberations.

The length of the deliberations, as well as some of the questions the jurors asked and the evidence they requested, seemed to raise the hopes of Browne Sanders and her legal team. None of the lawyers, however, would comment after United States District Court Judge Gerard E. Lynch sent the jury home at 5 p.m.