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 NCAA Basketball
| Who won the 1999 Big East Championship? | NCAA College Basketball (elmorev15) |
St. Johns. St. Johns had a team carried by Ron Artest and Lavor Postell that went to the Elite Eight before losing to Ohio State. But, the team with the last laugh from the Big East was Connecticut, winning the NCAA National Championship in Tampa against Duke 77-74, which by the way Connecticut was led by a guy known as Richard Hamilton.
| Who won the 1993 NCAA Final Four? | NCAA College Basketball (elmorev15) |
North Carolina. North Carolina blew a sigh of relief when with seconds remaining and the score tied. Chris Webber called a timeout when there was none remaining for Michigan, causing a technical foul and UNC hitting both free throws to take the game-winning lead.
| Who won the 1950 NIT, and who won the 1950 NCAA Final Four? | NCAA College Basketball (elmorev15) |
City College of New York. CCNY(City College of New York), which is unfamiliar to the sports world, was college basketball's peak twice. Back then, the NIT came before the NCAA Tournament and there was no rule of how many tournaments you were allowed to go to, so CCNY just got invited to both and put on a remarkable show of basketball before being crowned. CCNY beat the same team in the tournament finals, beating Bradley twice.
| Who was the first player to play for an NIT champion and NCAA runner-up in the same season? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Dick McGuire. McGuire began the 1944 season for eventual NIT champ St. John's, but was drafted into the armed forces and stationed at Dartmouth in mid-season. He finished the season on the Dartmouth squad that lost to Utah in the NCAA final.
| Who was the first player to lead the NCAA, NBA, and ABA in scoring? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Rick Barry. He accomplished the feat with Univeristy of Miami, Florida (1961-65), the Oaklands Oaks (ABA 1968-69), and the Golden State Warriors (NBA 1972-78).
| Who was the first NCAA tournament championship game participant to be the son of a former first-team All-American? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Chris Collins. Walton did reach the title game, but Collins was first, in 1994. His father Doug was a star for Illnois State in 1973.
| Who was the first major-college player to score over 2,500 points while standing less than 6 feet tall? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Calvin Murphy. Murphy, who starred for Niagara, stood just 5ft 9in but scored 2,548 points.
| Who was the first freshman to be named a first-team AP All-American? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Wayman Tisdale. Tisdale was a first-team All-American in 1983, 84, and 85. Freshmen were ineligible prior to 1973, except for certain wartime exceptions.
| Who was 18th on the preseason poll coming into the 2006-07 season? | NCAA College Basketball (elmorev15) |
Texas. When the whole starting lineup of Texas left in 2005, people believed that Texas would have an off year and a unranked spot. However, with the freshman Kevin Durant and his slick-shooting sidekick A.J. Abrams, Texas was back to business in the polls.
| Who upset the #2 seed Iowa State in the NCAA Tournament of 2001? | NCAA College Basketball (elmorev15) |
Hampton. Tiny Hampton executed their game plan perfectly over an Iowa State team starring Marcus Fizer and Jamaal Tinsley, slowly running their motions and eating up the shot clock to prevent the Cyclones from running before finally coming out on top.
| Who threw the inbounds pass to Christian Laettner in the East Regional Finals of 1992 to win the game? | NCAA College Basketball (elmorev15) |
Grant Hill. There was no one pressuring Hill's inbounds pass, so he basically had a clear shot to the center's hands for the most remarkable shot in NCAA basketball history.
| Who set a record for scoring 61 points in an NCAA Tournament game? | College Basketball Ball Facts (jerisjos) |
Austin Carr. He scored 61 points for his Notre Dame Fighting Irish, against Ohio University in the 1st round of the 1970 NCAA tourney.
| Who led the Vanderbilt Commodores in points per game for the 2001 season? | Tough 2001 NCAA Basketball (UCLAProSport) |
Chuck Moore. Lapointe wasn't a terrific scorer, but neither was Vanderbilt!
| Who led the Princeton Tigers in points per game for the 2001 season? | Tough 2001 NCAA Basketball (UCLAProSport) |
Nate Walton. Nate Walton led the Tigers in scoring, with barely better than 10 points per game. The Tigers lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to North Carolina.
| Who led the NCAA in total turnovers for the 2001 season? | Tough 2001 NCAA Basketball (UCLAProSport) |
Isaac Spencer. Spencer barely beat Omar Cook for total turnovers.
| Who led the NCAA in scoring in the 2003-04 season? | NCAA College Basketball (elmorev15) |
Keydren Clark. The tiny St. Peter's guard from New York attended Rice High School, where he learned different scoring techniques. Later at St. Peter's, he tore up the MAAC and the national spotlight by averaging close to 35 points a game in college. Carmelo Anthony, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh only averaged around 20 points a contest in college the year before.
| Who had the highest scoring average in Division I during the 2001 season? | Tough 2001 NCAA Basketball (UCLAProSport) |
Ronnie McCullum. McCullum led the nation in scoring average, but did not amass the most total points.
| Who did Don Haskins coach to the National Title? | NCAA College Basketball (elmorev15) |
Texas Western. Known as the first team to have a starting lineup of only black players, they came to shock the world in 1966 when they beat Kentucky's all-white squad coached by the great Adolf Rupp to take home the trophy literally and figuratively.
| Who amassed the most total points in Division I NCAA Basketball during the 2001 season? | Tough 2001 NCAA Basketball (UCLAProSport) |
Jason Williams . Jason Williams amassed the most total points, over 800 of them, while falling short of the best average to Ronnie McCollum.
| Which team was the first team to win the NCAA tournament with more than 6 losses? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Marquette. Marquette's 1977 champions lost 7 games during the season, 6 at home!
| Which team is part of the Ohio Valley Conference? | Tough 2001 NCAA Basketball (UCLAProSport) |
Murray State. Murray State did not have such a good season in 2001.
| Which team did UCLA not defeat in a title game during their amazing run of 10 titles in 12 years? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Houston. UCLA and Houston were 1-2 in 1968, but played only in the regular season and national semi-finals. The Bruins beat UNC in 1968, UK in 1975, and Purdue in 1969.
| Which school in the following list won an NCAA tournament championship first? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Indiana. Indiana won in 1940, UCLA in 1964, North Carolina in 1957, and Kentucky in 1948.
| Which school appeared in 3 straight final fours in the 1980s (1979-80 through 88-89 seasons)? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Houston. Houston went from 1982-84. UNC made it in 81, 82, and 84. Georgetown made it in 82, 84, and 85. UNLV made it in 1987.
| Which player was the first to gain some form of All-America honor (1st, 2nd, or 3rd team) 4 years in a row? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Tom Gola. Gola was 3rd team in 1951, and first team in 1952-53-54. Freshmen were eligible in 1951 due to the Korean War.
| Which player from the following list led the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same year? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Xavier McDaniel. McDaniel averaged 27.2 points and 14.8 boards in 1985 for Wichita State.
| Which Pac-10 Team had the highest scoring game in the 2001 season? | Tough 2001 NCAA Basketball (UCLAProSport) |
Oregon. Oregon finished in the middle of the Pac-10 in average points per game, however.
| Which Independent team made the most three pointers in the 2001 season? | Tough 2001 NCAA Basketball (UCLAProSport) |
Belmont. Belmont did not lead Independents in scoring, seconding to Texas-Pan American in that aspect.
| Which coach's actions led the NCAA to force teams to accept an NCAA bid or not play in the postseason? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
Al McGuire. McGuire declined an NCAA bid in 1970 in a dispute over Marquette's placement in a distant regional site. He took his team to the NIT and won it.
| When was the first NCAA tournament to invite 64 teams? | Extreme NCAA Basketball (vinselanity) |
1985. The tournament has since added a play-in game to bring the total to 65.
| What year did the NCAA tournament field expand to 64 teams? | College Basketball Ball Facts (jerisjos) |
1984-85. Villanova won the NCAA tournament with a 66-64 victory over Georgetown, becoming the lowest seeded team to win the NCAA's(8), a record untouched going into the 2003 season.
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