NCAA Basketball in the 20th Century

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

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

3. Which of these pairings of NCAA championship game teams resulted in the first championship game to go into overtime ? North Carolina and Kansas Utah and Dartmouth Cincinnati and Ohio State 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 ? LeMoyne-Owen and Rowan Potsdam State and Augustana North Park and Widener 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? Kansas Bradley Oklahoma State California

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

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 ? Ohio State and Wake Forest Brown and Villanova Oklahoma and Utah State 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 ? Louisville Tennessee Tech Loyola (Illinois) Illinois

11. Which was the last school to reject a bid to participate in the NCAA Division I Tournament ? Mississippi State Marquette Louisiana 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 ? Austin Carr of Notre Dame Lew Alcindor of UCLA Bill Bradley of Princeton Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati

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

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 ? Ohio State Columbia Marquette St. Bonaventure

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

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 ? Vic Rouse's tip-in at the buzzer to give Loyola the 1963 NCAA championship over Cincinnati 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 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

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 ? Princeton over defending champ UCLA in 1996 Villanova over Georgetown in 1985 championship game #15 seed Richmond over #2 seed Syracuse in 1991 #15 seed Coppin State over #2 seed South Carolina in 1997

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 ? Bradley George Washington Oklahoma City 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 ? Pennsylvania Villanova Wisconsin Louisiana State

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

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

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 ? 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". For the first time, the NCAA championship team had five African Americans starting the game. 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 ? Jerry Lucas of Ohio State Bill Russell of San Francisco Alex Groza of Kentucky 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 ? Christian Laettner of Duke Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas Larry Bird of Indiana State Earvin Johnson of Michigan State