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NCAA Basketball in the 20th Century

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NCAA Basketball in the 20th Century game quiz
"Testing your knowledge on the NCAA basketball tournament 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 ?
    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 ?
    Loyola (Illinois) and Cincinnati
    North Carolina and Kansas
    Utah and Dartmouth
    Cincinnati and Ohio State


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


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?
    Kansas
    California
    Oklahoma State
    Bradley


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
    Oregon and Texas
    Oklahoma and Utah State
    Brown and Villanova


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


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
    St. Bonaventure
    Marquette
    Columbia


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 ?
    Danny Ainge's 1981 length of the floor drive to give BYU a victory over Notre Dame
    Bryce Drew's 1998 3-pointer, giving Valparaiso a victory over Mississippi
    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


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


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 ?
    Lehigh
    Oklahoma City
    Bradley
    George Washington


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 ?
    Lew Alcindor of UCLA
    Bill Walton of UCLA
    Bill Russell of San Francisco
    Elvin Hayes of Houston


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.
    The 1966 Texas Western team was the only team from Texas to win the Division I championship in the 20th century.
    Rupp's Runts, the nickname for the Kentucky team, had no starter taller than 6'5".
    Texas Western guard Bobby Jo Hill was named the MVP of the 1966 final four.


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 ?
    Earvin Johnson of Michigan State
    Larry Bird of Indiana State
    Christian Laettner of Duke
    Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas


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