NCAA Basketball in the 20th Century

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1. What was the site of the first NCAA championship game in 1939 ? Patten Gymnasium, Evanston, Illinois Madison Square Garden, New York, New York Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri Williams Arena, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2. What city hosted the most NCAA Division I championship games in the 20th century ? Kansas City Louisville New York City Seattle

3. Which of these pairings of NCAA championship game teams resulted in the first championship game to go into overtime ? Utah and Dartmouth Cincinnati and Ohio State North Carolina and Kansas Loyola (Illinois) and Cincinnati

4. Which two schools were involved in the first Division II championship game ? Wheaton and Kentucky Wesleyan Evansville and Southern Illinois South Dakota and St. Michael's Mount St. Mary's and Cal State Sacramento

5. Which two schools were involved in the first Division III championship game ? North Park and Widener LeMoyne-Owen and Rowan Potsdam State and Augustana Scranton and Wittenberg

6. City College of New York won both the NCAA tournament and the NIT tournament in the same year. Which top-ranked team did CCNY defeat to win the 1950 NCAA title? Bradley Oklahoma State Kansas California

7. Who were the first undefeated NCAA tournament champions ? Indiana Hoosiers North Carolina Tar Heels San Francisco Dons UCLA Bruins

8. The following pairings list the first round matchups in the 1939 NCAA tournament. Which two teams met in the first NCAA basketball tournament game ? Brown and Villanova Oklahoma and Utah State Ohio State and Wake Forest Oregon and Texas

9. From 1964 to 1975, UCLA won ten basketball championships in twelve years. Which team was UCLA's opponent in the 1964 championship game ? Duke Michigan North Carolina Houston

10. The objection to racial integration caused friction on college campuses in the 1950s and 1960s. Mississippi State's 1963 team had to sneak out of town in order to play against a racially integrated team in the NCAA tournament. Who were the Bulldogs opponents in that celebrated game ? Tennessee Tech Louisville Illinois Loyola (Illinois)

11. Which was the last school to reject a bid to participate in the NCAA Division I Tournament ? Marquette Louisiana State Mississippi State Brigham Young

12. One player had five of the top ten single game scoring outputs in Division I tournament history during the 20th century. Who was he ? Bill Bradley of Princeton Austin Carr of Notre Dame Lew Alcindor of UCLA Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati

13. Who won the last consolation game at the Final Four of the Division I tournament ? DePaul Nevada-Las Vegas Arkansas Virginia

14. Only one team entered the NCAA tournament unbeaten, then proceeded to lose its opening game in the tournament. Which school ended 21-1 after entering the tournament 21-0 ? Columbia Marquette Ohio State St. Bonaventure

15. Which of the following coaches ended their college coaching careers with an NCAA championship ? Hank Iba of Oklahoma A&M Adolph Rupp of Kentucky Phil Woolpert of San Francisco Larry Brown of Kansas

16. Which of the following was the youngest coach to guide his squad to an NCAA tournament championship ? Branch McCracken of Indiana Don Haskins of Texas Western Bob Knight of Indiana Jim Valvano of North Carolina State

17. There have been a number of famous last-second shots to win games in the NCAA tournament, the most famous of which is Christian Laettner's jumper giving Duke a 104-103 overtime victory in the 1992 East Regional final. Which of the following famous buzzer-beating shots also won an overtime game at the tournament ? Bryce Drew's 1998 3-pointer, giving Valparaiso a victory over Mississippi Danny Ainge's 1981 length of the floor drive to give BYU a victory over Notre Dame James Forrest's 1992 25-footer off an inbounds pass with 0.8 seconds left, his only 3-pointer of the year, giving Georgia Tech a victory over #2 seed USC Vic Rouse's tip-in at the buzzer to give Loyola the 1963 NCAA championship over Cincinnati

18. There have been a number of famous upsets in NCAA tournament history. Which of the following celebrated upsets occured by the widest margin of victory ? #15 seed Coppin State over #2 seed South Carolina in 1997 #15 seed Richmond over #2 seed Syracuse in 1991 Princeton over defending champ UCLA in 1996 Villanova over Georgetown in 1985 championship game

19. 15 teams in the 20th century made the NCAA tournament with losing records. Only one of them won a game; that team went 2-1 and made it to the regional final. That team also happened to have the worst regular season record for any team entering the NCAA tournament. From what school did that team come ? Oklahoma City Bradley George Washington Lehigh

20. The NCAA started seeding its teams beginning with the 1979 Division I tournament. The lowest seeded team to reach the final four was a #11 seed. From which school did that number 11 seed come ? Villanova Pennsylvania Louisiana State Wisconsin

21. Which of the following conferences did not have a team win a game at the NCAA Division I tournament in the 20th century ? Skyline Eight Conference Border Conference Yankee Conference Big South Conference

22. Which of these all-time great players collected the most rebounds in a Division I final four game ? Bill Walton of UCLA Lew Alcindor of UCLA Elvin Hayes of Houston Bill Russell of San Francisco

23. March 19, 1996: on this day Texas Western defeated Kentucky, 72-66, at Cole Field House to win the NCAA title - the only title UCLA did not claim between 1964 and 1973. Which of the following statements about the game that day is NOT true ? For the first time, the NCAA championship team had five African Americans starting the game. Texas Western guard Bobby Jo Hill was named the MVP of the 1966 final four. Rupp's Runts, the nickname for the Kentucky team, had no starter taller than 6'5". The 1966 Texas Western team was the only team from Texas to win the Division I championship in the 20th century.

24. Lew Alcindor was the first and only player to win the MVP award at the final four on three occasions. Four other players won it twice. Which of the players below won the Final Four MVP award on only one occasion ? Bill Russell of San Francisco Alex Groza of Kentucky Jerry Lucas of Ohio State Bill Walton of UCLA

25. The NCAA named an all-time all star team on the occasion of the final four's 50th anniversary. Which of the following players was NOT named to that team ? Larry Bird of Indiana State Christian Laettner of Duke Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas Earvin Johnson of Michigan State