Answers (Day 4)

1. The five different Big Ten Conference universities to capture NCAA crowns are Indiana (1940, 1953, 1976, 1981 and 1987), Michigan (1989), Michigan State (1979 and 2000), Ohio State (1960) and Wisconsin (1941).

2. The ACC was the only conference to have all of its members win at least one NCAA Tournament game in the 1990s.

3. Sixteen Norm Stewart-coached teams at Missouri the last quarter of the 20th Century played in the tournament although he wasn't with the 1989 squad because of illness. Stewart had the worst record in NCAA playoff history for any of the coaches with at least 25 decisions (12-16, .429). He has more victories as a pitcher in the College World Series for Mizzou (7-3 over Oklahoma State in the 1954 fourth round) than basketball Final Four appearances.

4. Ed Diddle, who coached at Western Kentucky from 1923-64, compiled a whopping 759 career victories. But he had a modest 3-4 record in three NCAA playoff appearances (1940, 1960 and 1962).

5. Larry Brown, who guided Kansas to the 1988 title when the Jayhawks became the only NCAA champion to lose as many as four consecutive regular-season games, left them before the start of the next season to coach the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. Brown coached 22-10 UCLA to the 1980 championship game in his first college season after the Bruins finished in fourth place in the Pacific-10 Conference with a 12-6 league record. Brown and Frank McGuire (St. John's '52 and North Carolina '57) are the only two coaches to take two different schools to the final. Oddly, Brown accepted an athletic scholarship from North Carolina when McGuire was coach and graduated from there after Dean Smith replaced McGuire when he left the Tar Heels to coach the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors.

6. Butch van Breda Kolff, who compiled a 7-5 NCAA playoff record, guided Princeton to the '65 Final Four and the Lakers to the NBA championship series in 1968 and 1969 (lost to the Celtics both years). His son, Jan, coached Vanderbilt and Pepperdine in the NCAA tournament before moving on to St. Bonaventure.

7. Marquette won the 1977 NCAA title despite losing an NCAA-champion high five home games, including its last three, to register the Warriors' worst record in 10 years. They lost those home games to Louisville (3 in OT), Minnesota (7), DePaul (5 in 2OT), Detroit (1) and Wichita State (11) in Milwaukee Arena, where during one period coach Al McGuire's teams were 145-7, including an 81-game winning streak. Marquette has a losing record in the tournament since capturing the 1977 title. In 1978, the Warriors lost in the first round to Miami of Ohio (84-81 in overtime). After finishing national runner-up in 1974, they lost in the first round the next year to Kentucky (76-54).

8. Fred Taylor, who coached Ohio State to the 1960 title, was a first baseman who played sparingly for the Washington Senators in parts of three seasons from 1950 through 1952. His entire college head coaching career was with the Buckeyes from 1959 through 1976.

9. Dr. Tom Davis compiled a 5-2 playoff record at Boston College before going 13-9 at Iowa.

10. Kansas - Phog Allen (Final Four trips in 1940, 1952 and 1953), Dick Harp (1957), Ted Owens (1971 and 1974), Larry Brown (1986 and 1988), Roy Williams (1991, 1993, 2002 and 2003) and Bill Self (2008). The Jayhawks went 36 years (from 1952 to 1988) between national championships.