Emphasizing a "one-and-only" theme for a "one-and-only" event, here is Day 8 of a treasure-trove of tantalizing NCAA Tournament trivia questions from CollegeHoopedia.com (10 per day from Selection Sunday through the championship game) tracking the only coach, conference, player or school to be linked to a distinguished or dubious achievement (click here for answers or conduct research digesting historical morsels in CollegeHoopedia's year-by-year highlights):

1. Name the only school to reach the Final Four three consecutive years on two separate occasions in the 20th Century. Hint: In the first three-year stretch, it became the only school to lose three straight national semifinal games. In the second three-year stretch, the school was involved in only times two teams from same state met each other in championship game.

2. What was the only year two undefeated teams reached the Final Four? Hint: One of the squads had a perfect ending after winning in the national semifinals and championship game by an average of 16 points, while the other club that was unbeaten lost in national semifinals and third-place game by an average of 15 points.

3. Who is the shortest player to lead an NCAA champion in scoring average? Hint: He was part of a three-guard starting lineup, averaging under 5-10 in height, playing the entire championship game for the only current Division I school to capture an NCAA title despite never having an NCAA consensus first- or second-team All-American.

4. Who is the only U.S. Olympic basketball coach to win the NCAA and NIT titles with different schools? Hint: He never participated in a national postseason tournament with the third university he coached (Michigan State).

5. Who was the only coach to direct two different schools to the Final Four twice apiece in the 20th Century? Hint: He is the only coach to compile a record of more than four games under .500 in Final Four contests and only coach to guide three teams to national fourth-place finishes.

6. Who is the only coach of a championship team other than Rick Pitino to subsequently coach another university and compile a winning NCAA playoff record at his last major-college job? Hint: He is the only coach to win a national title at a school where he stayed less than five seasons.

7. Of the coaches to reach the national semifinals at least twice, who is the only one to compile an undefeated Final Four record? Hint: He won both of his championship games against the same school. He is also the only NCAA consensus first-team All-American to later coach his alma mater to an NCAA title.

8. Name the only school to lead UCLA at halftime in the 22 Final Four games for the Bruins' 11 titlists. Hint: The school leading one of the 11 UCLA champions at intermission of a Final Four game was coached by a John Wooden protege.

9. Of the coaches hired by NBA teams after winning an NCAA championship, who is the only one to compile a non-losing NBA playoff record? Hint: He is one of four different men to coach an undefeated NCAA championship team.

10. Name the only school to defeat a team by as many as 27 points in a season the opponent wound up winning the national title. Hint: The school is also the only one to defeat an eventual national titlist twice in same season by at least 12 points.

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NCAA Tournament match-ups between members from the same power league such as Michigan State vs. Minnesota are relatively rare (29 of them). But what made this second-round contest unique was how early in the tourney the first Big Ten Conference member confrontation since 2000 occurred. Two seasons ago, SEC rivals Florida and South Carolina met in the East Regional final. It was the first such tilt for the SEC in a 31-year span.

The Big Ten Conference accounted for seven of the first 18 NCAA Tournament games pitting league members against each other. Three campaigns ago marked the first time a league (ACC) generated three intra-conference playoff confrontations in a single tourney. It won't be surprising if the ACC duplicates that achievement this season.

Year	Conference	Playoff Round	NCAA Tourney Result Between Members of Same League
1976	Big Ten	national championship	Indiana 86 (May scored team-high 26 points), Michigan 68 (Green 18)
1980	Big Ten	regional semifinals	Purdue 76 (Edmonson/Morris 20), Indiana 69 (I. Thomas 30)
1980	Big Ten	national third-place	Purdue 75 (Carroll 35), Iowa 58 (Arnold 19)
1981	ACC	national semifinals	North Carolina 78 (Wood 39), Virginia 65 (Lamp 18)
1983	ACC	regional final	North Carolina State 63 (Whittenburg 24), Virginia 62 (Sampson 23)
1985	Big East	national semifinals	Georgetown 77 (Williams 20), St. John's 59 (Glass 13)
1985	Big East	national championship	Villanova 66 (McClain 17), Georgetown 64 (Wingate 16)
1986	SEC	regional semifinals	Kentucky 68 (Walker 22), Alabama 63 (Coner 20)
1986	SEC	regional final	Louisiana State 59 (Williams 16), Kentucky 57 (Walker 20)
1987	Big East	regional final	Providence 88 (Donovan/D. Wright 20), Georgetown 73 (Williams 25)
1987	Big East	national semifinals	Syracuse 77 (Monroe 17), Providence 63 (Screen 18)
1988	Big Eight	regional final	Kansas 71 (Manning 20), Kansas State 58 (Scott 18)
1988	Big Eight	national championship	Kansas 83 (Manning 31), Oklahoma 79 (Sieger 22)
1989	Big Ten	national semifinals	Michigan 83 (Rice 28), Illinois 81 (Battle 29)
1992	Big Ten	regional final	Michigan 75 (Webber 23), Ohio State 71 (Jackson 20)
1992	Great Midwest	regional final	Cincinnati 88 (Jones 23), Memphis State 57 (Hardaway 12)
2000	Big Ten	regional final	Wisconsin 64 (Bryant 18), Purdue 60 (Cardinal/Cunningham 13)
2000	Big Ten	national semifinals	Michigan State 53 (Peterson 20), Wisconsin 41 (Boone 18)
2001	ACC	national semifinals	Duke 95 (Battier 25), Maryland 84 (Dixon 19)
2002	Big 12	regional final	Oklahoma 81 (Price 18), Missouri 75 (Paulding 22)
2009	Big East	regional final	Villanova 78 (Anderson 17), Pittsburgh 76 (Young 28)
2013	Big East	regional final	Syracuse 55 (Southerland 16), Marquette 39 (Blue 14)
2015	ACC	regional semifinals	Louisville 75 (Harrell 24), North Carolina State 65 (Lacey 18)
2016	ACC	regional final	North Carolina 88 (Johnson 25), Notre Dame 74 (Jackson 26)
2016	ACC	regional final	Syracuse 68 (Richardson 23), Virginia 62 (Perrantes 18)
2016	ACC	national semifinals	North Carolina 83 (Jackson/Johnson 16), Syracuse 66 (Cooney 22)
2017	SEC	regional final	South Carolina 77 (Thornwell 26), Florida 70 (Leon 18)
2018	ACC	regional semifinals	Duke 69 (Bagley 22), Syracuse 65 (Battle 19)
2019	Big Ten	second round	Michigan State 70 (Tillman 14), Minnesota 50 (Coffey 27)
2019	ACC	regional semifinals	Duke 75 (Williamson 23), Virginia Tech 73 (Blackshear 18)
2019	SEC	regional final	Auburn 77 (Harper 26), Kentucky 71 (Washington 28)

Weep On It/Think On It/Sleep On It/Drink On It. That could be the motto for Utah State after the Aggies remained a "Susan Lucci" school in Division I by losing in opening round, preventing them from chance to reach the Promised Land. Brigham Young, Missouri and Xavier are the only three schools participating in more than 25 NCAA Tournaments but never advancing to a Final Four.

Missouri has reached a regional final on four occasions but fell short in advancing to the Final Four. Last year, Xavier joined Mizzou (1994) and Auburn (1999) as the only schools never reaching the national semifinals despite earning a #1 seed at some point during their NCAA playoff participation. Boston College is another bridesmaid multiple times comparable to Xavier, losing three regional finals (1967, 1982 and 1994) in 18 tourney appearances (22-19 record) since the field expanded beyond eight teams in 1950.

Utah State is among the following five frustrated institutions in a quagmire because they've made more than 20 appearances without reaching the Final Four:

George Washington-bound Jamion Christian is deemed an ascending star in the coaching profession after compiling a 17-16 record in his only season with Siena, which won only eight games in 2017-18. But what a majority of media mavens fail to point out is there have been numerous "won-and-done" mentors posting significantly better winning percentages in "short-and-sweet" one-year stints since the generally recognized start of the modern era of college basketball in the early 1950s.

Fordham improved by 14 games in Digger Phelps' only season with the Rams in 1970-71, a mark that stood for one-year wonders until Chris Beard broke it last year with a 15-game improvement after UALR (30-5) went 13-18 in 2014-15. Buzz Peterson, the only coach to win a national postseason championship in his only season at a school (Tulsa), is among the following "one-and-done" coaches who won more than 60% of their games in one-year tenures in the last 50-plus years:

Coach	School	Single Season	W-L	Pct.	Reason for One-Year Stint
Lute Olson	Long Beach State	1973-74	24-2	.923	Became coach at Iowa.
Digger Phelps	Fordham	1970-71	26-3	.897	Became coach at Notre Dame.
Chris Beard	UALR	2015-16	30-5	.857	Became coach at UNLV.
Carl Tacy	Marshall	1971-72	23-4	.852	Became coach at Wake Forest.
Keno Davis	Drake	2007-08	28-5	.848	Became coach at Providence.
Matt Painter	Southern Illinois	2003-04	25-5	.833	Became coach at Purdue.
Stan Heath	Kent State	2001-02	29-6	.829	Became coach at Arkansas.
Paul Weir	New Mexico State	2016-17	28-6	.824	Became coach at New Mexico.
Thad Matta	Butler	2000-01	24-8	.750	Became coach at Xavier.
Bill Fitch	Bowling Green	1967-68	18-7	.720	Became coach at Minnesota.
Jim Harding*	La Salle	1967-68	20-8	.714	Forced out by administration.
Buzz Peterson	Tulsa	2000-01	26-11	.703	Became coach at Tennessee.
Bob Vanatta	Army	1953-54	15-7	.682	Became coach at Bradley.
Larry Shyatt	Wyoming	1997-98	19-9	.679	Became coach at Clemson.
Rick Barnes	George Mason	1987-88	20-10	.667	Became coach at Providence.
Ron Greene	Mississippi State	1977-78	18-9	.667	Became coach at Murray State.
Art Tolis	New Orleans	1987-88	21-11	.656	Forced out by administration.
Scott Drew	Valparaiso	2002-03	20-11	.645	Became coach at Baylor.
Louis Orr	Siena	2000-01	20-11	.645	Became coach at Seton Hall.
Bob Huggins	Kansas State	2006-07	22-13	.629	Became coach at West Virginia.
Grant McCasland	Arkansas State	2016-17	20-12	.625	Became coach at North Texas.
Brad Underwood	Oklahoma State	2016-17	20-13	.606	Became coach at Illinois.

*Harding became coach for Minnesota (ABA) for portion of 1968-69 season.

Emphasizing a "one-and-only" theme for a "one-and-only" event, here is Day 6 of a treasure-trove of tantalizing NCAA Tournament trivia questions from CollegeHoopedia.com (10 per day from Selection Sunday through the championship game) tracking the only coach, conference, player or school to be linked to a distinguished or dubious achievement (click here for answers or conduct research digesting historical morsels in CollegeHoopedia's year-by-year highlights):

1. Who was the only player to lead the nation in scoring average in the same season he played for a team reaching the NCAA Tournament championship game? Hint: He was the first player to score more than 30 points in a Final Four game and the only individual to crack the 30-point plateau in national semifinals and final in same season. He was also the only Big Eight Conference player to lead nation in scoring.

2. Of the 60 or so different players to score at least 2,500 points and/or rank among the top 25 in career scoring average, who was the only one to have a winning NCAA playoff record in his career plus post higher scoring, rebounding and field-goal shooting playoff averages than he compiled in regular season? Hint: The player scored at least 17 points in all 10 of his NCAA playoff games.

3. Who was the only football Heisman Trophy winner to play in the basketball Final Four? Hint: He won the Most Outstanding Player Award in a Liberty Bowl after setting a school record for longest run from scrimmage.

4. What was the only Final Four match-up to have both coaches opposing his alma mater? Hint: It's happened twice. The protege was an assistant at his alma mater for 10 years.

5. Who is the only coach to oppose his alma mater more than twice at the Final Four? Hint: He is also the only coach in the 20th Century to twice win conference and NCAA tournaments in same year.

6. Who is the only unbeaten coach in NCAA playoff history? Hint: He is the only NCAA basketball championship coach to also be baseball coach at the same school when it won a College World Series game.

7. Who was the only coach with more than 30 NCAA Tournament victories to earn those wins at more than one school until Lute Olson (Iowa and Arizona) joined him in 1998? Hint: Three schools for the first coach were slapped with an NCAA probation during his stints there.

8. Who is the only coach in back-to-back years to win at least one NCAA playoff game in his first season with two different schools? He coached Butler the previous campaign. Hint: He was an assistant under three coaches who directed two different schools to the NCAA Tournament (Charlie Coles, Tates Locke and Herb Sendek).

9. Name the only school to gain an at-large invitation despite losing all of its conference road games. Hint: Three years earlier, the school received an at-large bid despite losing four league road games by at least 25 points.

10. Of the individuals to both play and coach in the NCAA Tournament, who leads that group in both scoring and rebounding totals? Hint: He was the leading scorer in biggest blowout in regional final history.

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North Carolina A&T State appeared in the NCAA playoffs the most times (nine) without winning a tournament game until prevailing in a First Four outing earlier this decade. But N.C. A&T still has a long way to go to join the ranks of "quick-exit" schools such as St. John's and Temple. This season, the Johnnies exhibited all the frailty of a club completely unworthy of an at-large berth.

Connecticut, after absorbing nine opening-round losses in 17 years from 1951 through 1967, had the most opening-round setbacks for an extended period. But the Huskies didn't incur an opening-round reversal for 28 years until suffering two in a recent five-year span. Similarly, St. John's suffered eight opening-round losses in a 20-year stretch from 1973 through 1992.

Maryland was the first school to incur at least 10 NCAA Tournament defeats but never absorb an opening-round setback until the Terrapins lost to Santa Clara in 1996. Mizzou's mauling by a mediocre Florida State squad, six years after bowing against Norfolk State despite being favored by more than 20 points, left the Tigers among the five schools most prone to sustaining an opening-round NCAA tourney defeat:

Fran Dunphy had had only one Top 20 team in 30 seasons of coaching (Temple in 2009-10), but he finished his career in exclusive company upon stepping aside for former Owls player Aaron McKie following this campaign. Dunphy, who was bench boss for Penn 17 years prior to joining the Owls, is one of only four Division I mentors compiling more than 200 victories and at least seven NCAA Tournament appearances with two different universities.

"I've just been coaching a long time," said a modest Dunphy, who fell short of joining Roy Williams as the only coaches with 300 triumphs for two DI schools. Following is an alphabetical list of Dunphy, Williams and the two other coaches (Lou Henson and Eddie Sutton) in this select circle (Rick Pitino made six straight NCAA playoff appearances with Kentucky in the mid-1990s and John Calipari appeared in six NCAA tourneys with Memphis in the previous decade):

Coach	Subject Seasons	Two Different Schools With More Than 200 Victories (Minimum of Seven NCAA Playoff Appearances)
Fran Dunphy	30 (1989-90 through 2018-19)	Penn (1993-94-95-99 and 2000-02-03-05-06)/Temple (2008-09-10-11-12-13-16-19)
Lou Henson	38 (1966-67 through 1995-96, 1997-98 through 1999-00 and 2000-01 through 2004-05)	New Mexico State (1967-68-69-70-71-75-99)/Illinois (1981-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-93-94-95)
Eddie Sutton	27 (1974-75 through 1984-85 and 1990-91 through 2005-06)	Arkansas (1977-78-79-80-81-82-83-84-85)/Oklahoma State (1991-92-93-94-95-98-99 and 2000-01-02-03-04-05)
Roy Williams	31 (1988-89 through 2018-19)	Kansas (1990-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99 and 2000-01-02-03)/North Carolina (2004-05-06-07-08-09-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19)

NOTE: Henson (Hardin-Simmons), Pitino (Hawaii, Boston University and Providence) and Sutton (Creighton, Kentucky and San Francisco) also coached other colleges.

"No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done." - Ogden Nash

Nobody said it was going to be easy for Belmont as the Nashville-based school sang the blues losing its first seven NCAA playoff games before posting first-ever tourney victory in First Four competition. But the preceding quote definitely still rings true for the following five universities competing in NCAA playoffs the most but still possessing a defect because they are winless:

0-8 - Eastern Kentucky
0-7 - Boise State, Long Island, Louisiana-Monroe and Nebraska

There is a tendency to overindulge at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Anyone digesting the following assortment of incisive facts on most of the NCAA Division I Tournament coaches should find that variety is the spice of this occasionally irreverent smorgasbord. Remember: If a morsel isn't appetizing, don't be a glutton for punishment in trying to comprehend what makes the coaching community tick. Just proceed directly to the next tidbit. Sooner or later, there's bound to be a factoid that you can savor.

ABILENE CHRISTIAN: Joe Golding served as an assistant coach with two junior colleges before returning to his alma mater ACU in the same capacity.

ARIZONA STATE: Bobby Hurley appeared in the 1994 feature film Blue Chips, where he played for the Indiana team under coach Bob Knight.

AUBURN: As an undergraduate at Boston College, Bruce Pearl was Tom Davis' administrative assistant before serving as an assistant coach under Davis at Stanford and Iowa.

BAYLOR: Scott Drew served as coach of an Athletes In Action (AIA) squad that toured Croatia and Bosnia in the summer of 1997.

BELMONT: Rick Byrd was a student assistant coach at Tennessee under the legendary Ray Mears.

BRADLEY: Two-time C-USA all-league selection Brian Wardle scored all of Marquette's first-half points (17) on 2-16-00 when it trailed DePaul, 27-17.

BUFFALO: Detroit-area prep coach Nate Oats joined Bobby Hurley's staff directly with junior college recruit Justin Moss in 2013 before Moss became Mid-American Conference Player of the Year the next season and one year before center Raheem Johnson aligned with the Bulls as another J.C. signee. Moss and Johnson played under Oats at Romulus H.S.

UC IRVINE: Russell Turner played under recently-dismissed William & Mary coach Tony Shaver with Hampden-Sydney (Va.).

CINCINNATI: Mick Cronin's father, Harold "Hep" Cronin, compiled more than 400 victories as a high school coach in the greater Cincinnati area.

COLGATE: Matt Langel played under retiring coach Fran Dunphy at Penn before serving as an assistant coach under him at Penn and Temple.

DUKE: Mike Krzyzewski was an assistant with Dave Bliss, Bob Donewald and Bob Weltlich on Indiana coach Bob Knight's staff in 1974-75. Krzyzewski had the worst three-year record for the Blue Devils (38-47 from 1980-81 through 1982-83) since George Buckheit went 16-30 from 1924-25 through 1926-27.

FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON: Greg Herenda holds the Merrimack (Mass.) record for assists in a game (22) and shares the standard for single-season average (9.0).

FLORIDA: Mike White's wife, Kira, was an All-SEC volleyball player for Ole Miss. His father, Kevin, is Director of Athletics at Duke.

FLORIDA STATE: Leonard Hamilton, who set a school record by scoring 54 points for Gastonia (N.C.) Community College before attending Tennessee-Martin, was hired by Wilmington, N.C., native Michael Jordan to coach the Washington Wizards in 2000-01. Hamilton's nine-victory increase in Big East competition with Miami (Fla.) from 1994 to 1995 is the largest in conference history.

GARDNER-WEBB: Tim Craft directed the Runnin' Bulldogs to non-league road victories in the last five seasons against three ACC members (Clemson, Georgia Tech and Wake Forest) plus two Big Ten teams (Nebraska and Purdue).

GEORGIA STATE: One of Ron Hunter's teammates at Miami (Ohio) during three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances from 1984 through 1986 was NBA standout Ron Harper. Hunter hit all six of his field-goal attempts while Harper went 7 of 22 in their final college game, an 81-79 overtime loss to Iowa State in the first round of the 1986 Midwest Regional. Hunter gained national notoriety for coaching barefoot during games to raise awareness of children who do not have shoes. With Samaritan's Feet, Hunter helped raise more than 250,000 pairs of shoes and made deliveries to Peru, Costa Roca and South Africa.

GONZAGA: Mark Few never was a head coach at any level before inheriting that position after Dan Monson departed for Minnesota. Few was an assistant for two different Oregon high schools before becoming an aide with the Zags under Dan Fitzgerald and Monson. Few's wedding vows in 1994 were exchanged with Rev. Norm Few, the father of the groom.

HOUSTON: Kelvin Sampson was a three-year baseball letterman at Pembroke (N.C.) State.

IONA: Tim Cluess was a part-time caterer for a Holiday Inn while coaching at the small-college level with C.W. Post. Cluess and his three older brothers (Hank, Greg and Kevin) all played for St. John's.

IOWA: Fran McCaffery is believed to have been the youngest coach (28 years old) ever to take a team to the NCAA Tournament when he directed Lehigh to the 1988 playoffs. His wife, the former Margaret Nowlin, ranks among the top 10 scorers in Notre Dame history. She was the catalyst behind the first-ever NCAA women's appearance by the Irish in 1992 and was named MVP of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference Tournament that year. Margaret served as an assistant coach at her alma mater in 1996-97.

IOWA STATE: Steve Prohm began college at Division III Oglethorpe in Atlanta before promptly transferring to Alabama, where he worked as student manager.

KANSAS: Bill Self served as an assistant on the Big Eight Conference coaching staffs of Larry Brown (Kansas) and Eddie Sutton (Oklahoma State). Self, an Oklahoma State alumnus, played in the Big Eight against Maryland coach Mark Turgeon (Kansas) and top two NBA draft picks Steve Stipanovich (2nd selection overall in 1983/attended Missouri), Wayman Tisdale (2nd in 1985/Oklahoma) and Danny Manning (1st in 1988/Kansas). Self, Oklahoma's High School Player of the Year over Tisdale in 1980-81, directed Oral Roberts to the nation's best winning percentage among independent schools in 1996 (18-9) and 1997 (21-7).

KANSAS STATE: Bruce Weber served as a high school assistant coach in Milwaukee three years during his college days. He has two brothers who are high school coaches (Ron in northern Wisconsin and David in the Chicago area).

KENTUCKY: John Calipari lettered two years for UNC-Wilmington before transferring to Clarion (Pa.) State.

LIBERTY: Ritchie McKay's brother, Orlando, caught 13 touchdown passes for the University of Washington from 1989 through 1991 (shared NCAA national title with Miami FL as senior) before becoming a fifth-round selection in 1992 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers. Their father, Joe, averaged 11.9 points per game for New Mexico from 1960-61 through 1962-63.

LOUISIANA STATE: MIA Will Wade began his career as a student manager for Clemson.

LOUISVILLE: Chris Mack played for Athletes in Action in 1993 and in Europe in 1994. His wife, Christi, was Director of Basketball Operations for women's basketball team with Xavier from 2001 through 2003.

MARQUETTE: Steve Wojciechowski played professional basketball in Poland for one season after finishing among Duke's top 10 career leaders in assists and steals.

MARYLAND: Mark Turgeon became the first Kansas player ever to play in four consecutive NCAA Tournaments (1984 through 1987), played in the Big Eight Conference against Illinois counterpart Bill Self (Oklahoma State). Turgeon was an assistant with Jerry Green, Steve Robinson and Kevin Stallings during coach Roy Williams' first four seasons with the Jayhawks from 1988-89 through 1991-92.

MICHIGAN: John Beilein is the only active mentor in the country to register 20-win seasons at the junior college, NAIA, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division I levels. A 22-7 record in 1993-94 in his second year at the major-college level with Canisius was the winningest in school history and came just two seasons after the Golden Griffins suffered an all-time high in losses (8-22 mark in 1991-92). His uncle, Joe Niland, coached Canisius for five seasons from 1948-49 through 1952-53. They are relatives of soldiers that inspired the best-selling book "Band of Brothers" and Oscar Award-winning movie "Saving Private Ryan."

MICHIGAN STATE: Tom Izzo was a teammate in high school (Iron Mountain, Mich.) and college (Northern Michigan) of former Detroit Lions coach Steve Mariucci. Izzo, a running back, and Mariucci, a quarterback, were the best men in each others' weddings.

MINNESOTA: Richard Pitino was manager of Providence's team under coach Tim Welsh.

MISSISSIPPI: The father of Kermit Davis Jr. directed Mississippi State to a 91-91 record in seven seasons from 1970-71 through 1976-77.

MISSISSIPPI STATE: Ben Howland's wife, Kim, is a former Weber State cheerleader. He was an assistant for Gonzaga in 1981-82 when future NBA assists king John Stockton was a sophomore with the Zags. "I played against him every day because our backup point guard quit," Howland said. "You didn't realize at the time how special it was until you look back and say, `Yeah, I used to get my butt kicked every day by the greatest point guard ever.'"

MONTANA: Travis DeCuire played for Chaminade (Hawaii) in 1990-91 before transferring to Montana.

MURRAY STATE: Matt McMahon played under Buzz Peterson at Appalachian State before serving as an assistant coach under him for a couple of universities (Tennessee and UNC Wilmington). His wife, Mary, played basketball for Furman.

NEVADA: Among Eric Musselman's teammates at San Diego was Mike Whitmarsh, who won a silver medal in beach volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

NEW MEXICO STATE: Chris Jans was head coach for three different junior colleges. Despite directing Bowling Green to a 20-win campaign on the heels of a 20-loss season, he was fired after one year with the Falcons after being caught on video drunk in a campus bar making inappropriate comments towards a young woman.

NORTH CAROLINA: Roy Williams' son, Scott, was a backup guard with the Tar Heels.

NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL: LeVelle Moton, known as "Poetry 'n Moton" when he played for NCCU in the mid-1990s, played four years professionally in Indonesia and Israel.

NORTH DAKOTA STATE: David Richman was the nation's winningest first-year coach at the NCAA Division I level with a 23-10 record in 2014-15.

NORTHEASTERN: Bill Coen spent three years working in the computer software industry before accepting his first coaching position. Coen played and coached under Tom Murphy, who won more than 600 games for Hamilton (N.Y.) College before becoming an assistant under his protege.

NORTHERN KENTUCKY: John Brannen led Marshall in scoring in 1996-97 when he was Southern Conference Tournament MVP.

OHIO STATE: One of Chris Holtmann's teammates with Taylor (Ind.) was Akron coach John Groce.

OKLAHOMA: Lon Kruger was selected in 12th round of 1970 MLB draft by the Houston Astros out of high school and in 21st round of 1974 MLB draft by the St. Louis Cardinals after graduating from Kansas State. He compiled a 1-6 pitching record in summer of '74 for St. Petersburg in Florida State League (Class A).

OLD DOMINION: Virginia's 1992 NIT title enabled Jeff Jones to become the only person to win NIT crowns as a player (Virginia guard in 1980) and as a coach. His father, Bob Jones, had been coach of Kentucky Wesleyan when it won the 1973 NCAA Division II championship. Jeff became the youngest head coach in ACC history (29) when he was appointed to the Cavaliers' position on April 16, 1990. He guided them to the nation's best start in 1992-93 (won first 11 outings) before they split their last 20 assignments.

OREGON: Dana Altman was the only coach in Creighton history to participate in at least five consecutive national postseason tournaments. The Bluejays appeared in either the NCAA playoffs or NIT in 12 consecutive years from 1998 through 2009.

PRAIRIE VIEW: Juco recruit Byron Smith was an All-SWC second-team selection with Houston as a junior and senior in the early 1990s before returning to his alma mater as an assistant coach under Clyde Drexler.

PURDUE: Matt Painter's father attended Big Ten Conference rival Indiana.

ST. JOHN'S: Chris Mullin, leading scorer for St. John's 1985 Final Four team as a senior, averaged 20.7 ppg, 4.3 rpg and 3.9 apg in 10 NCAA playoff games.

SAINT LOUIS: Travis Ford worked for a brokerage firm in Bowling Green, Ky., following his playing career with Kentucky after transferring from Missouri. His wife, Heather, was swimmer for the Wildcats. Ford's playing days ended in training camp with the Golden State Warriors, but his time in California landed him the role of Danny O'Grady in the movie "The Sixth Man."

SAINT MARY'S: Randy Bennett played for his father, Tom, at Mesa Community College before attending UC San Diego. At Mesa, Bennett helped his team to a 56-10 record and two Arizona J.C. championships.

SETON HALL: Kevin Willard played for his father, Ralph, at Western Kentucky and Pittsburgh. Kevin went on to become a coaching intern with the Boston Celtics under Rick Pitino, who was Kentucky's coach in 1989-90 when Ralph was an assistant there with Billy Donovan, Herb Sendek and Tubby Smith.

SYRACUSE: Jim Boeheim, an avid golfer, served as varsity golf coach for the Orange from 1967 until the program disbanded in 1973. He was an assistant basketball coach under Roy Danforth during that period. Boeheim, a three-year teammate of Syracuse All-American Dave Bing in the mid-1960s, played in the CBA for the Scranton Miners. Boeheim made 13-of-19 field-goal attempts (68.4%) in two 1966 NCAA playoff games for East Regional runner-up. On five occasions (1977-84-96-01-03), Boeheim guided the Orangemen to the Top 20 in a final AP poll after they were not ranked that high in the preseason.

TEMPLE: Fran Dunphy, in his first varsity start for La Salle, held Niagara's Calvin Murphy to eight field goals after Murphy averaged 38.2 points per game the previous season in 1967-68. Dunphy ended his college career in 1969-70 with a career-high 29 points against Miami (Fla.).

TENNESSEE: Texas' turnaround in 1998-99 (19-13 record after going 14-17 in 1997-98 under Tom Penders) enabled Rick Barnes to become the only active coach to take two different schools to the NCAA playoffs in his maiden voyage with them after they posted a losing mark the previous campaign. He previously achieved the feat with Providence in the late 1980s. Barnes posted the nation's best winning percentage by a first-year major college head coach in 1987-88 when he went 20-10 (.667) in his lone season with George Mason.

UTAH STATE: Craig Smith served as an assistant under Tim Miles at four colleges (Mayville State, North Dakota State, Colorado State and Nebraska).

VERMONT: John Becker coached two seasons at Gallaudet, the country's only four-year liberal arts college for the deaf and hearing impaired.

VILLANOVA: Jay Wright worked as an administrative assistant with the Philadelphia Stars football franchise, which captured the 1983 United States Football League championship. He married a former Villanova cheerleader.

VIRGINIA: Tony Bennett is the son of former DI coach Dick Bennett and brother of women's coach Kathi Bennett.

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH: Mike Rhoades led Lebanon Valley (Pa.) to 1994 NCAA Division title and graduated as the college's all-time leading scorer.

VIRGINIA TECH: Brent "Buzz" Williams received his nickname while attending Navarro College, where he "buzzed" around the junior college basketball team so often the coach issued him the moniker.

WASHINGTON: Mike Hopkins, a high school teammate of LeRon Ellis in Santa Ana, Calif., in the late 1980s, was instrumental in convincing Ellis to transfer from Kentucky to join him at Syracuse.

WISCONSIN: Greg Gard served as an assistant coach under Bo Ryan at three colleges (Wisconsin-Platteville, UW-Milwaukee and the Badgers).

WOFFORD: Mike Young directed the Terriers to road victories at North Carolina and South Carolina in the last two seasons.

YALE: James Jones has a brother, Joe, who was an assistant coach at Villanova before becoming bench boss at another Ivy League member (Columbia).

Emphasizing a "one-and-only" theme for a "one-and-only" event, following is Day 3 of a treasure-trove of tantalizing NCAA Tournament trivia questions from CollegeHoopedia.com (10 per day from Selection Sunday through the championship game) tracking the only coach, conference, player or school to be linked to a distinguished or dubious achievement (click here for answers or conduct research digesting historical morsels in CollegeHoopedia's year-by-year highlights):

1. Who is the only coach to lose as many as five games in the 20th Century to teams with double-digit seeds? Hint: Four of the defeats in this category were in consecutive years.

2. Name the only historically black college and university to win multiple NCAA Tournament games. Hint: It posted the first three HBCU victories in the early 1980s.

3. Who was the coach of the only University of Detroit team to win an NCAA playoff game until the Titans defeated St. John's in 1998? Hint: Detroit lost to an in-state rival in a regional semifinal four days after posting its first tournament victory. The coach of that squad is the only Seton Hall graduate to win an NCAA tourney game.

4. Name the only school with more than 30 NCAA Tournament appearances to compile a losing playoff record and never appear in the national championship game. Hint: It's the only school to finish more than 10 seasons ranked in an AP Top 10 since the wire service's first poll in 1949 to never win an NCAA Tournament title.

5. Name the only first-time entrant to be seeded better than fifth since the field expanded to at least 48 teams in 1980. Hint: The school reached the Final Four in its playoff debut.

6. Name the only conference to have three representatives at a single Final Four by winning regional finals against three members from another league. Hint: No player scored more than 20 points in the three Final Four games that year.

7. Who is the only coach with six or more NCAA playoff appearances to reach a regional final every time? Hint: His school is the only one to win back-to-back NCAA championships in its first two appearances in the tournament. His son was coach of a school in the same conference when the institution participated in the tourney for the initial time.

8. Name the only school to win at least one playoff game in a year it entered the tournament with a losing record after suffering 14 consecutive defeats during one stretch of the regular season. Hint: The school participated in the national championship game the previous year and was once runner-up in the NCAA Tournament and NIT in the same season. The school has also won just one playoff game since 1955, the season it finished with its worst overall record in a 53-year span and became only team ever to enter playoffs with a record of more than 10 games under .500.

9. Name the only school to have as many as seven different coaches compile losing NCAA playoff records. Hint: The school is more games under .500 in tournament play than any institution, but pulled off a first-round upset of a defending champion behind a star player who subsequently entered the coaching profession and compiled a 6-3 NCAA Tournament record with another university in the same state from 1989-90 through 1991-92.

10. Name the only school to advance to a regional semifinal in three consecutive campaigns despite having a double-digit seed each year. Hint: The school defeated teams from the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, C-USA, Pacific-10 and SEC during the NCAA playoffs in that span.

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After previously toiling in relative obscurity, former small-college standouts Chris Flemmings (transferred from Barton NC to UNC Wilmington) and Duncan Robinson (Williams MA to Michigan) made significant contributions in the previous three NCAA Division I Tournaments along with backup center Manny Suarez (Adelphi NY to Creighton). This year, several G-Men - Baylor forward Freddie Gillespie (from Carleton MN), Austin Peay guard Jarrett Givens (from Adams State CO) and Liberty forward Keenan Gumbs (from Schreiner TX) - are regulars for NCAA tourney teams.

Flemmings, Gillespie, Givens, Robinson and Suarez aren't the only small-school transfer players to go from nowhere to Cloud Nine in the NCAA DI playoffs. Arkansas, Duke, Gonzaga, Iowa, Kansas State, Louisville, Marquette, Nevada and Wisconsin featured small-college transfers in regular rotations of previous NCAA tourney squads. There is even a coach in this year's tourney who was in this rare category as a player - Montana's Travis DeCuire (Chaminade HI to his current pit stop).

Of course, the most prominent player in history in this category is all-time great Elgin Baylor (Seattle). Consider this alphabetical list of more than 30 transfers who went from non-Division I schools to center stage in the NCAA Division I Tournament prior to Flemmings, Gillespie, Givens, Robinson and Suarez:

Scott Barnes, C (Eastern Montana 81-82/Fresno State 84-85)
Averaged 9.7 ppg and 4.8 rpg for Eastern Montana before averaging 11.7 ppg and 6.6 rpg for Fresno State. Barnes was an All-PCAA second-team selection as a senior when he led the Bulldogs in rebounding (7.4 rpg). Grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds against Karl Malone-led Louisiana Tech when Fresno bowed to the Bulldogs in the first round of 1984 NCAA playoffs.

Elgin Baylor, F (College of Idaho 55/Seattle 57-58)
Averaged 31.3 ppg and 18.9 rpg for College of Idaho (now Albertson College) before averaging 31.2 ppg and 19.8 rpg for Seattle. He was an NCAA unanimous first-team All-American and Final Four Most Outstanding Player as a junior in 1957-58.

Davion Berry, G-F (Cal State Montery Bay 10-11/Weber State 13-14)
Game-high 24 points in 68-59 opening-game defeat against Arizona in 2014.

Don Boldebuck, C (Nebraska Wesleyan 52-53/Houston 55-56)
Averaged more than 20 ppg for Nebraska Wesleyan before averaging 23 ppg and 17 rpg in leading Houston in scoring and rebounding both of his seasons with the Cougars. He paced them in scoring in both of their NCAA playoff games in 1956.

Mike Born, G (Nebraska-Omaha 85-86/Iowa State 88-89)
Averaged 10.5 ppg for Nebraska-Omaha before averaging 8.6 ppg and 2.5 apg for two NCAA Tournament teams at Iowa State. Scored six points in each of his NCAA playoff games.

Jim Boylan, G (Assumption MA 74-75/Marquette 77-78)
Fifth-leading scorer for 1977 NCAA Tournament champion. He scored 14 points in the tourney final against Phil Ford-led North Carolina.

Jon Bryant, G (St. Cloud State MN 96-97/Wisconsin 99-00)
All-North Central Conference selection and team MVP with 17.3 ppg as a sophomore after being named NCC Freshman of the Year when he hit 57.4% of his three-point attempts. Third-leading scorer for the Badgers burst on the national scene with seven three-pointers, including four in a zone-busting 1 1/2-minute stretch late in the game, to help the Badgers rally to a 66-56 over Fresno State in the first round of 2000 West Regional.

Ronnie Clark, G (Florida Southern 00/Colorado State 02-04)
Sunshine State Conference freshman of the year was CSU's third-leading rebounder and fourth-leading scorer in 2003 when the Rams played Duke tough before bowing in the opening round.

Terry Connolly, F (Shepherd WV 87-88/Richmond 90-91)
Averaged 8.2 ppg each of his two seasons with Spider NCAA playoff teams. Member of first #15 seed to defeat a #2 seed (Syracuse in 1991).

Barry Davis, F (Sam Houston State 73/Texas A&M 75-76)
Freshman on Sam Houston State's top-ranked NAIA team. Juco recruit became two-time All-SWC selection, delivering team-high 16 points and game-high 15 rebounds in 87-79 setback against Cincinnati in 1975 Midwest Regional.

Travis DeCuire, G (Chaminade HI 90/Montana 92-94)
Led Chaminade in scoring with 10.9 ppg as a freshman in 1989-90. Averaged 6.7 ppg, 2.4 rpg and 5 apg for the Grizzlies, including Big Sky Conference-leading 7.1 apg as a senior. Competing against eventual Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward, DeCuire scored six points in a 78-68 reversal against Florida State in the 1992 NCAA playoffs.

Mike Hanson, G (Tennessee-Martin 89/Louisiana State 91-93)
Scored 40 points vs. LSU as a freshman when leading UTM in scoring (20 ppg) and assists. Erupted for 31 points against both Tennessee and Illinois as a sophomore when he was the Tigers' third-leading scorer (12.7 ppg) before his playing time decreased significantly his final two seasons. Member of three LSU teams participating in the NCAA playoffs.

John Harrell, G (North Carolina Central 76/Duke 78-79)
Averaged 15.7 ppg and led N.C. Central in assists in 1975-76. Averaged 5.1 ppg for Duke's NCAA Tournament runner-up in 1977-78 before playing sparingly the next season.

Curtis High, G (Tennessee-Martin 81-82/Nevada-Reno 84-85)
Tennessee-Martin's second-leading scorer as a freshman (14.3 ppg) and sophomore (12.6 ppg). Led UNR in scoring and assists as a junior (13.3 ppg, 6.3 apg) and senior (17.8 ppg, 6 apg) for two NCAA tourney squads. All-Big Sky first-team selection in 1984-85. Scored a team-high 21 points in 1984 first-round loss to Detlef Schrempf-led Washington.

Roy Howard, F (Tarleton State TX 89/Texas-El Paso 91-93)
Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association Freshman of the Year when he led Tarleton State in scoring (15.3 ppg) and rebounding (11.5 rpg). UTEP's second-leading rebounder as a senior (6.5 rpg). Averaged 4.2 ppg and 4.4 rpg for 1992 NCAA playoff team that upset #1 seed Kansas in the Midwest Regional.

Avery Johnson, G (Cameron OK 85/Southern LA 87-88)
Averaged a modest 4.3 ppg for Cameron before leading the nation in assists with Southern for two NCAA tourney teams. Distributed a total of 17 assists in NCAA playoff games against Temple and Kentucky. Shares NCAA single-game record for most assists with 22. Went on to become principal playmaker for the San Antonio Spurs' NBA champion before coaching in the pros prior to accepting a similar job at Alabama.

Fred Lewis, F (Tampa 88/South Florida 90-92)
Sunshine State Conference Freshman of the Year when he averaged 15.2 ppg and 5.7 rpg. Averaged 13 points and eight rebounds per game for USF. He was the Bulls' second-leading rebounder all three seasons, including two NCAA playoff teams.

Bob Lochmueller, F (Oakland City IN/Louisville 50-52)
Averaged 15 ppg in his career with the Cardinals, leading their first NCAA Tournament team in scoring as a junior (19 ppg).

Tony Massop, C (Sacramento State 87/Kansas State 89-90)
Averaged 10.3 ppg and 8 rpg as a sophomore at Sacramento State. Averaged 5.9 ppg and 5.6 rpg as a junior and 8.1 ppg and 6.6 rpg as a senior for a pair of NCAA tourney teams. He was the Wildcats' leading rebounder in 1989-90.

Boyd McCaslin, F (Hobart, N.Y. 45/Dartmouth 46/Michigan 48-49)
All-Ivy League second-team selection went on to participate in Michigan's first NCAA playoff game in 1948 after transferring with coach Ozzie Cowles. Originally lettered with Hobart.

Bret Mundt, C (Bethel TN/Memphis State 88-89)
Averaged 5.1 ppg and 3.6 rpg in 1987-88 and 6.2 ppg and 4.2 rpg in 1988-89 for a pair of NCAA tourney teams. Scored 13 points when the Tigers lost to Purdue in 1988 Midwest Regional.

Tucker Neale, G (Ashland OH 91/Colgate 93-95)
Averaged 23.1 ppg for Colgate's first NCAA playoff team in 1995.

Anunwa "Nuni" Omot, F (Concordia MN 15/Baylor 17-18)
Member of the Bears' regular rotation much of 2016-17 season as juco recruit.

Aaron Preece, G (Illinois College/Bradley 49-51)
Sixth-leading scorer for the Braves' 1950 NCAA and NIT runner-up tallied 12 points in each of the NCAA Final Four games.

Nevil Shed, F (North Carolina A&T/Texas Western 65-67)
"The Shadow" sank the free throw in 1966 NCAA championship game against Kentucky, giving the Miners a lead they never relinquished. He averaged 10.6 ppg and 7.9 rpg for the national titlist.

Bill Sherwood, C-F (Oglethorpe GA 84-85/Oregon State 87-88)
Averaged 7.7 ppg in 1986-87 and 14.7 ppg in 1987-88 for the Beavers. Outscored teammate Gary Payton with 17 points in OSU's 70-61 loss to Louisville in 1988 Southeast Regional.

Danny Singletary, G (Ohio Valley WV/Coppin State 97-98)
Led National Small College Athletic Association in scoring in mid-1990s with 27.6-ppg average before transferring. Averaged 12.5 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 2.8 apg and 2.3 spg for Coppin State in 1996-97 and 1997-98. Scored 18 of his game-high 22 points in the second half of a shocking 78-65 first-round triumph against South Carolina in 1997 NCAA playoffs before collecting team-high 6 assists and game-high 6 steals in 82-81 setback against Texas.

Gregg Smith, C (North Dakota State 00/Eastern Washington 02-04)
Transferred along with coach Ray Giacoletti following freshman season in 1999-00 (5.6 ppg and 3.9 rpg). Averaged 3.4 ppg and 2.3 rpg in three-year career with EWU, scoring team-high 16 points against Oklahoma State in his final game (75-56 setback in 2004 East Regional in East Rutherford).

Scott Snider, C (Pacific Lutheran WA 92-93/Gonzaga 95-96)
Led Pacific Lutheran in scoring as a freshman with 11.9 ppg before averaging 14 ppg and 5.6 rpg as a sophomore. Led the WCC in field-goal shooting (62.9%) as a senior when he averaged 10.4 ppg and 7.4 rpg after averaging 5.2 ppg and 4.2 rpg the previous year for the Zags' first NCAA Tournament team.

Johnny Taylor, F (Knoxville TN 94/Tenn.-Chattanooga 96-97)
Averaged 18.2 ppg and 8.1 rpg with UTC before becoming an NBA first-round draft choice. Southern Conference Player of the Year for UTC team upsetting Georgia and Illinois in the 1997 Southeast Regional.

Chad Townsend, G (St. Edward's TX 95/Murray State 97-98)
Averaged 22.4 ppg and 4.4 rpg in his final season at St. Edward's. All-OVC second-team selection averaged 13.3 ppg, 4.3 rpg and a school-record 7.1 apg as a junior when he was OVC Tournament MVP. Played in two NCAA tourneys with the Racers.

Joel Tribelhorn, G (Fort Lewis CO 85-87/Colorado State 89)
Finished third on Fort Lewis' career scoring list with 1,390 points after setting school single-season records for most points (635 in 1986-87), highest scoring average (24.4 ppg in 1985-86) and best three-point field-goal shooting (50% in 1986-87). The NAIA All-American second-team selection as a junior became an All-WAC second-team pick as a senior when he was CSU's second-leading scorer (13.8 ppg), led the Rams in field-goal shooting (53.9%) and paced the league in three-point shooting (56.3%). Scored a game-high 20 points when CSU upset Florida, 68-46, in the 1989 Midwest Regional.

Roosevelt Wallace, F (Virginia Union/Arkansas 91-92)
Averaged 8.8 ppg and 5.7 rpg for the Razorbacks' 1992 NCAA playoff squad.