Unless you're still busy hoarding toilet paper to wipe butts of woeful New York attorneys, wondering how many translators are required for world leaders to try to understand Plagiarist Biledumb or cowering in fetal position from latest Dr. Fraudci deity directive, it's your opportunity to start taking online tests for 23 quarantined days symbolic of normal time frame from Selection Sunday to Monday evening championship contest.

We need something to occupy our minds during quarantine from much of the invective-infected #MessMedia. Emphasizing a "one-and-only" theme for a "one-and-only" event, here is Day 11 of a treasure-trove of tantalizing NCAA Tournament trivia questions from CollegeHoopedia.com 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.com's year-by-year highlights):

1. Who is the only one of the 60 or so two-time consensus first-team All-Americans since 1946 never to participate in the NCAA Tournament or the NIT? Hint: His school was a total of 10 games over .500 in Big Ten Conference competition in his junior and senior seasons. He never played on a team to win playoff series in his nine-year NBA career.

2. Who is the only player to score more than 20,000 pro points yet never reach the conference finals in the NBA playoffs after playing at least two seasons of varsity basketball at a major college and never participating in the NCAA Division I playoffs? Hint: The college he attended made its NCAA Tournament debut the first year after he left school early to become third pick overall in NBA draft.

3. Who is the only coach since the tourney field expanded to at least 48 teams to take two different universities to the playoffs when the schools appeared in the tournament for the first time? Hint: His last name begins with a "F" and he no longer is Division I head coach.

4. Name the only school with a losing record to secure an automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs by winning a regular-season conference title. Hint: The league started a postseason tournament two years later and the school in question has lost all six times it reached conference tourney championship game.

5. Name the only major university to have two graduates score more than 17,000 points in the NBA after playing at least three varsity seasons in college and failing to appear in the NCAA Tournament. Hint: The school has had three other players score more than 10,000 points in the NBA after never appearing in NCAA playoffs.

6. Name the only former titlist to have an all-time playoff record 10 games below the .500 mark. Hint: Longtime network broadcaster Curt Gowdy played in the tournament for the school.

7. Name the only state with three schools to compile tournament records at least nine games below .500. Hint: The three institutions from same state are members of different conferences.

8. Who was the only player shorter than Bobby Hurley, Duke's 6-0 guard, to play for a championship team and be selected as the Final Four Most Outstanding Player? Hint: There was another Final Four MOP who was also shorter than 6-0, but he played for a national third-place finisher in the mid-1950s.

9. Who is the only individual to play in an NCAA Tournament championship game and later coach his alma mater to a final? Hint: He served as an assistant to the coach with the most NCAA playoff victories and a college teammate is one of the winningest coaches of all time.

10. Name the only one of the schools with multiple national titles to have two teams participate in the NCAA playoffs as defending champions but lose their opening-round game. Hint: Both of the opening-round setbacks for the school when it was defending champion occurred in East Regional.

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Amid Boise State still being winless after 10 playoff outings, the West remains the worst. Such a viewpoint shouldn't be a surprise unless you put stock in creepy porn lawyer #Avenaughty as a #Dimorat presidential candidate, hideous Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation or always believe contrived comments from Muslim Brotherhood apologist/former CIA chief John "NBC News' Snoopy" Brennan. Brigham Young and Utah State - more games below .500 than any institutions in NCAA playoff history (both 19) - bowing out of the NCAA playoffs before the Sweet 16 is almost a tradition. Also weighing heavily out West, Wyoming is the only former national champion (1943) to compile an all-time NCAA playoff record more than five games below .500 (9-21).

Everett Shelton, coach of Wyoming's titlist, is the only championship team bench boss to finish with a non-winning playoff record (4-12 from 1941 through 1958) and was more games under .500 in NCAA Division I Tournament competition than any coach in history until supplanted by Fran Dunphy (3-17 with Penn and Temple from 1993 through 2019). Also, Shelton is the only coach to lose three consecutive regional final games (1947, 1948 and 1949).

Joining Dunphy and Shelton among the eight coaches more than six games under .500 in NCAA playoff play are Rick Byrd (1-8 with Belmont from 2006 through 2019), Pete Carril (4-11 with Princeton from 1969 through 1996), Don Corbett (0-7 with North Carolina A&T from 1982 through 1988), Hugh Greer (1-8 with Connecticut from 1951 through 1960), Stew Morrill (1-9 with Montana and Utah State from 1991 through 2011) and Mike Vining (0-7 with Louisiana-Monroe from 1982 through 1996).

More than half of the following 11 schools more than 10 games below .500 in NCAA tourney competition are from west of the Mississippi River:

School	Playoff Record	Games Below .500 Mark	Summary of Tournament Tumult
Brigham Young	15-34	minus 19	only one of victories was by fewer than six points
Utah State	7-26	minus 19	lost 20 of last 22 playoff games
New Mexico State	11-28	minus 17	lost 12 straight games until ending streak this year after winning seven of 11 contests from 1968 through 1970
Princeton	15-30	minus 15	lost eight of first nine games from 1952 through 1963 and five straight contests since 1998 until reaching 2023 Sweet 16
Iona	1-16	minus 15	15 straight setbacks with first four of them by fewer than four points from 1980 through 1998
Miami (Ohio)	6-19	minus 13	only victory in 10-game span from 1969 through 1992 was in OT against defending NCAA champion Marquette in 1978
Murray State	5-18	minus 13	lost 11 games in a row from 1988 through 2006
Penn	13-26	minus 13	lost last 10 games and 15 of last 16 after entering 1979 Final Four with winning playoff record (11-9)
Wyoming	9-21	minus 12	1943 NCAA titlist before losing 12 of 13 games from 1947 through 1967
Montana	2-13	minus 11	won inaugural game in 1975 but lost last four contests since 2012 by an average of 26 points
Weber State	6-17	minus 11	seven of last nine defeats since 1979 were by fewer than 12 points

Should I stay or should I go? It's a good thing universities play in mammoth arenas because the egos of their "Pompous Pilots" wouldn't fit any other place. Reverberations will be felt for years after Arkansas' romance prying John Calipari loose from Kentucky.

Much of the excess in the canonization of coaches is perpetuated by coaches-turned-television commentators who shamelessly fawn over their former colleagues. Instead, the analysts should be more concerned about encouraging mentors to spare fans the pious blather about school loyalty and the sanctity of a contract.

Granted, it's survival of the fittest amid the offer-you-can't-refuse backdrop. But in many instances, schools have been little more than convenient steppingstones for "larger-than-life" coaches along their one-way street to success. It's understandable in many instances why mercenaries are leaving the minute they're appointed because coaches are in a distasteful "hired-to-be-fired" vocation, where a pink slip is only one losing season or poor recruiting class away.

If not about the money and perks, why did obsessive Buzz Williams reportedly file FOIA requests annually for the contracts of every basketball and football coach for every NCAA Division I public institution to discern how an agreement should be created?

Whatever the case, it's a black eye on the sport when loyalty seems to have become too much of a one-way street. At times, it makes one wonder how the bench bosses can look themselves in the mirror. Five of Tulsa's six coaches in one stretch - Nolan Richardson, Tubby Smith, Steve Robinson, Bill Self and Buzz Peterson - abandoned ship for more prestigious positions despite each of them having at least three years remaining on their deals.

More than 70 different active coaches had at least three years remaining on their pacts when leaving for greener pastures. New Stanford bench boss Kyle Smith (from Columbia/San Francisco/Washington State) joined Calipari and the following alphabetical list of mentors departing three or four schools before their contracts expired:

• Steve Alford - three years remaining on contract when he left Southwest Missouri State for Iowa; four when left Iowa for New Mexico, and 10 when left New Mexico for UCLA

• Chris Beard - three years remaining on contract when he left UALR for UNLV; five when left UNLV for Texas Tech, and four when left Texas Tech for Texas

• John Calipari - 10 years remaining on contract when he left Massachusetts for the NBA's New Jersey Nets; four when left Memphis for Kentucky, and five when left Kentucky for Arkansas

• Jim Christian - five years remaining on contract when he left Kent State for Texas Christian; three when left TCU for Ohio University, and three when left Ohio University for Boston College

• Trent Johnson - five years remaining on contract when he left Nevada for Stanford; one when left Stanford for Louisiana State, and two when left LSU for Texas Christian

• Lon Kruger - four years remaining on contract when he left Kansas State for Florida; five when left Florida for Illinois; four when left Illinois for the Atlanta Hawks, and two when left UNLV for Oklahoma

• Cuonzo Martin - four years remaining on contract when he left Missouri State for Tennessee; two when left Tennessee for California, and four when left Cal for Missouri

• Ritchie McKay - two years remaining on contract when he left Portland State for Colorado State; four when left Colorado State for Oregon State, and four when left Oregon State for New Mexico

• Kevin O'Neill - three years remaining on contract when he left Marquette for Tennessee; four when left Tennessee for Northwestern, and two when left Northwestern for the New York Knicks (assistant)

• Buzz Peterson - nine years remaining on contract when he left Appalachian State for Tulsa; four when left Tulsa for Tennessee; two when left Coastal Carolina for the Charlotte Bobcats (director of player personnel), and four when left Appalachian State again for UNC Wilmington

• Rick Pitino - five years remaining on contract when he left Providence for New York Knicks; three when left Kentucky for Boston Celtics, and two when left Iona for St. John's

• Bill Self - two years remaining on contract when he left Oral Roberts for Tulsa; five when left Tulsa for Illinois, and five when left Illinois for Kansas

• Tubby Smith - three years remaining on contract when he left Tulsa for Georgia; six when left Georgia for Kentucky; four when left Kentucky for Minnesota, and three when left Texas Tech for Memphis

• Mark Turgeon - two years remaining on contract when he left Jacksonville State for Wichita State; nine when left Wichita State for Texas A&M, and four when left Texas A&M for Maryland

• Buzz Williams - involved in lawsuit with New Orleans when he left to become Marquette assistant; six years remaining on contract when left Marquette for Virginia Tech, and four when left Virginia Tech for Texas A&M

Deal or no deal? The length of contracts doesn't seem to carry any weight as a factor in the equation as long as your brain cells or ethical standards don't put any stock into length of an existing pact. Dusty May had nine years remaining on his pact with FAU upon departing for Michigan. Following is an alphabetical list detailing coaches reportedly still having contractual obligations of more than five seasons when they left a school for greener pastures during their careers:

• Steve Alford (10 years remaining on contract) - left New Mexico (following 2012-13 season)/hired by UCLA
• Rick Barnes (6) - Clemson (1997-98)/Texas
• John Beilein (6) - Richmond (2001-02)/West Virginia
• Tony Bennett (6) - Washington State (2008-09)/Virginia
• Dave Bliss (6) - New Mexico (1998-99)/Baylor
• Mike Brey (7) - Delaware (1999-00)/Notre Dame
• John Calipari (10) - Massachusetts (1995-96)/New Jersey Nets
• Jeff Capel III (6) - Virginia Commonwealth (2005-06)/Oklahoma
• Tom Crean (9) - Marquette (2007-08)/Indiana
• Keith Dambrot (6) - Akron (2016-17)/Duquesne
• Kermit Davis (6) - Middle Tennessee State (2017-18)/Mississippi
• Jamie Dixon (7) - Pittsburgh (2015-16)/Texas Christian
• Matt Doherty (6) - Florida Atlantic (2005-06)/Southern Methodist
• Bryce Drew (7) - Valparaiso (2015-16)/Vanderbilt
• Larry Eustachy (6) - Utah State (1997-98)/Iowa State
• Dennis Felton (6) - Western Kentucky (2002-03)/Georgia
• Tim Floyd (6) - New Orleans (1993-94)/Iowa State
• Tim Floyd (8) - Iowa State (1997-98)/Chicago Bulls
• Travis Ford (7) - Massachusetts (2007-08)/Oklahoma State
• Billy Gillispie (8) - Texas A&M (2006-07)/Kentucky
• Brian Gregory (7) - Dayton (2010-11)/Georgia Tech
• Leonard Hamilton (7) - Miami (Fla.) (1999-00)/Washington Wizards
• Fred Hoiberg (8) - Iowa State (2014-15)/Chicago Bulls
• Chris Holtmann (8) - Butler (2016-17)/Ohio State
• Ben Howland (6) - Pittsburgh (2002-03)/UCLA
• Danny Hurley (6) - Rhode Island (2017-18)/Connecticut
• Johnny Jones (6) - North Texas (2011-12)/Louisiana State
• Jeff Lebo (8) - Chattanooga (2003-04)/Auburn
• Gregg Marshall (8) - Winthrop (2006-07)/Wichita State
• Thad Matta (9) - Xavier (2003-04)/Ohio State
• Dusty May (9) - Florida Atlantic (2023-24)/Michigan
• Fran McCaffery (7) - Siena (2009-10)/Iowa
• Sean Miller (9) - Xavier (2008-09)/Arizona
• Wes Miller (8) - UNC Greensboro (2020-21)/Cincinnati
• Paul Mills (6) - Oral Roberts (2022-23)/Wichita State
• Dan Monson (10) - Gonzaga (1998-99)/Minnesota
• Lute Olson (7) - Iowa (1982-83)/Arizona
• Buzz Peterson (9) - Appalachian State (1999-00)/Tulsa
• Skip Prosser (6) - Xavier (2000-01)/Wake Forest
• Oliver Purnell (6) - Clemson (2009-10)/DePaul
• Mike Rice Jr. (7) - Robert Morris (2009-10)/Rutgers
• Steve Robinson (7) - Tulsa (1996-97)/Florida State
• Kelvin Sampson (6) - Washington State (1993-94)/Oklahoma
• Shaka Smart (8) - Virginia Commonwealth (2014-15)/Texas
• Tubby Smith (6) - Georgia (1996-97)/Kentucky
• Brad Stevens (9) - Butler (2012-13)/Boston Celtics
• Mark Turgeon (9) - Wichita State (2006-07)/Texas A&M
• Brad Underwood (6) - Stephen F. Austin (2015-16)/Oklahoma State
• Will Wade (7) - Virginia Commonwealth (2016-17)/Louisiana State
• Buzz Williams (6) - Marquette (2013-14)/Virginia Tech

Danny Sprinkle won 80% of his games in only season (28-7 record) with Utah State before seeking greener pastures at Washington. But a surprising number of previous "won-and-done" mentors posted even higher 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.

Kyle Neptune nearly joined loser list of one-year wonders (16-16 with Fordham before succeeding Hall of Famer Jay Wright at Villanova). 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 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 - including 2024 Sweet 16 bench bosses Rick Barnes (with George Mason), Matt Painter (Southern Illinois) and Brad Underwood (Oklahoma State) - who won more than 60% of their games in one-year tenures in the last 70 years:

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

A modest total of 14 individuals have emerged victorious as both an All-American player and head coach in NCAA Tournament competition. Michigan's Juwan Howard is the only one of them to compile winning NCAA tourney records at least two games above .500 in each category. But Howard, missing the tourney the past two years, was dismissed by the Wolverines. Duke's Jon Scheyer and Nevada's Steve Alford were the only former A-As coaching teams in this year's tourney.

Indiana's Branch McCracken, who directed the Hoosiers to NCAA tourney titles in 1940 and 1953, is the only one of the first 69 All-Americans becoming major-college mentors to finish his coaching career compiling a higher winning percentage as coach. But McCracken and Whitey Baccus, Tom Churchill, Jack Gray, Moose Krause plus John Wooden were A-As before the NCAA Tournament was introduced in 1939. More than 40 All-Americans who became major-college coaches either did not play or coach in NCAA playoffs. Five Duke graduates are among the following alphabetical list of 24 individuals participating in national tourney as an All-American player and bench boss (nine of them guiding their alma mater):

All five of them advanced this year following three consecutive campaigns when at least three consensus first-team All-Americans didn't reach the Sweet 16. Two seasons ago marked the first time four available NCAA consensus first-team All-Americans - three from Big Ten - failed to reach the national tournament Sweet 16 since 1975 when field expanded to 32 teams and every entrant had to win at least one game before advancing to regional semifinals.

Four consensus first-teamers didn't reach Sweet 16 in 2000 but one of them was injured (Cincinnati's Kenyon Martin broke his right leg in C-USA Tournament). There had been only one year (2006) when every consensus first-teamer appeared in Sweet 16 since seeding was introduced in 1979.

Creighton's Doug McDermott is the only first-teamer in that span failing to play in second weekend three straight seasons (2012 through 2014) and DePaul's Mark Aguirre is lone first-teamer to be eliminated in opening round in back-to-back years (1980 and 1981). Georgia Tech coach Damon Stoudamire (Arizona) is among the following NCAA consensus first-team All-Americans failing to appear in Sweet 16 since 1975 (listed in reverse order):

^Lost opening-round game.
NOTE: Martin was injured (broke his right leg in 2000 C-USA Tournament).

Packing the court legitimately eight years ago, the ACC set an NCAA Tournament record with six Sweet 16 participants. No power league had as many as four for the the past two years before the ACC supplied four this season. In 2016-17, the national media proclaimed the ACC as perhaps the greatest league in history but that assessment came before the nine-bid alliance was fortunate to have one representative among regional semifinalists (North Carolina overcame five-point deficit in last three minutes against Arkansas) and failed to produce a single individual among 19 All-Americans three seasons ago. #MessMedia proclaimed the Big Ten as dominant two seasons ago but only one of nine participants survived the first weekend of competition. The Big Ten became the first conference securing at least nine entrants in single tourney and have none of them advance to a regional final in 2022.

In 2009, the Big East became the first conference to boast five playoff teams reaching the regional semifinals in the same year until the ACC duplicated the feat two years ago. The ACC boasted four members advancing that far on eight occasions in a 12-year stretch from 1984 through 1995.

The ACC in 1985 was the only league in this category not to have at least one of the quartet reach the Final Four until the Big East was foiled in 2006. The following list of thoroughbred leagues supplied at least four Sweet 16 participants a total of 30 times since the NCAA Tournament field expanded to at least 48 teams in 1980:

x-Won NCAA championship
y-Finished national runner-up
z-Reached Final Four

Gonzaga entered NCAA Tournament final three years ago boasting a school-record winning streak (35) before beaten by Baylor. The Zags should know the fact numerous other teams had the daunting task of capturing the NCAA championship or watch even longer school-record winning streaks come to a halt. James Madison entered national playoffs this campaign with a 13-game winning streak, which is significantly shorter than the following alphabetical list of schools boasting still existing all-time DI winning streaks of at least 25 consecutive victories broken during the NCAA playoffs:

Naturally, it would be unfair to include "one-and-done" players from four seasons ago as coronavirus prevented them from participating in national postseason competition. No All-American missed out on postseason play this year, but you can go back to Big Ben to assess whether he was a freshman phenom or flop. Eight seasons ago, LSU's Ben Simmons was the first NCAA consensus All-American in 38 years (since Minnesota's Mychal Thompson and Portland State's Freeman Williams in 1978) to leave college after failing to appear in either of the two principal national postseason tournaments during their career. After previously occurring frequently, Army's Kevin Houston (1987) had been the last All-American of any type to miss the NCAA tourney and NIT until Simmons and Detroit's Antoine Davis last season (despite COVID-enhanced five years of eligibility as the Titans went 29 games below .500 during his stint). Davis, Houston, Thompson and Williams comprise four of 24 four- and five-year players among all A-As in this dubious category. Thompson is among a total of 50 such players from Big Ten Conference members.

Simmons' questionable NBA playing status the past several seasons is nothing new. He plus fellow All-Americans Kay Felder (Oakland) and Markelle Fultz (Washington freshman seven years ago) might have made bigger names for themselves in college if they had participated in national postseason competition prior to declaring early for the NBA draft. Fultz, briefly a teammate of Simmons with the Philadelphia 76ers, became the 126th standout from a member of an existing power league (26 of them consensus) on the following alphabetical list of All-Americans, including Kevin Love's father (Stan Love/Oregon A-A in 1971), who never competed in the NCAA playoffs or NIT since the national-tourney events were introduced in the late 1930s:

No Postseason All-American	Position	School	Year(s) All-American
Alvan Adams	C	Oklahoma	1974 and 1975
Jim Ashmore	G	Mississippi State	1957
Chet Aubuchon	G	Michigan State	1940
*Don Barksdale	C	UCLA	1947
Leo Barnhorst	F-C-G	Notre Dame	1949
John Barr	G	Penn State	1941
*Walt Bellamy	C	Indiana	1961
Gale Bishop	F-C	Washington State	1943
Bruno Boin	F-C	Washington	1957
George BonSalle	C	Illinois	1957
Wally Borrevik	C	Oregon State	1944
*Vince Boryla	F-C	Notre Dame/Denver	1949
Fred Boyd	G	Oregon State	1972
*Frank Burgess	G	Gonzaga	1961
Jim Burns	G	Northwestern	1967
Lawrence Butler	G	Idaho State	1979
*Leo Byrd	F	Marshall	1959
Bob Calihan	C	Detroit	1939
Dan Callandrillo	G	Seton Hall	1982
Joe Capua	G	Wyoming	1956
Tom Chilton	F	East Tennessee State	1961
*Doug Collins	G	Illinois State	1973
Russ Critchfield	G	California	1967
Billy Cunningham	F	North Carolina	1964 and 1965
*Chuck Darling	C	Iowa	1952
A.W. Davis	F	Tennessee	1965
Antoine Davis	G	Detroit	2023
Charlie Davis	G	Wake Forest	1971
***Terry Dischinger	C-F	Purdue	1960 through 1962
Bill Ebben	F	Detroit	1957
Paul Ebert	C	Ohio State	1952 through 1954
Frank Ehmann	F	Northwestern	1955
Bob Faris	F	George Washington	1939
Bob Faught	C	Notre Dame	1942
Kay Felder	G	Oakland	2016
Ken Flower	G	Southern California	1953
**Darrell Floyd	G-F	Furman	1955 and 1956
*Malachi Flynn	G	San Diego State	2020
*Chet Forte	G	Columbia	1957
Don Freeman	F	Illinois	1966
**Robin Freeman	G	Ohio State	1955 and 1956
Markelle Fultz	G	Washington	2017
Terry Furlow	F	Michigan State	1976
*Dave Gambee	F	Oregon State	1958
*Dick Garmaker	F	Minnesota	1954 and 1955
Bill Garrett	C	Indiana	1951
Ed Gayda	F	Washington State	1950
Harold Gensichen	F	Western Michigan	1943
Ralph "Toddy" Giannini	G	Santa Clara	1940
Joe Gibbon	F	Mississippi	1957
Chester "Chet" Giermak	C	William & Mary	1950
**Otto Graham	F	Northwestern	1943 and 1944
**Dick Groat	G	Duke	1951 and 1952
**Dale Hall	F	Army	1944 and 1945
*Ralph Hamilton	F	Indiana	1947
Bill Hanson	F-C	Washington	1962
Vince Hanson	C	Washington State	1945
Bill Hapac	F	Illinois	1940
Jules "Skip" Harlicka	G	South Carolina	1968
Jerry Harper	C-F	Alabama	1956
*Spencer Haywood	F-C	Detroit	1969
**Fred Hetzel	F-C	Davidson	1963 through 1965
Joe Hobbs	G	Florida	1958
Paul Hoffman	F-C	Purdue	1947
Kevin Houston	G	Army	1987
Frank Howard	C-F	Ohio State	1957
**Bailey Howell	F-C	Mississippi State	1958 and 1959
Lou Hudson	G-F	Minnesota	1965 and 1966
*Dick Ives	F	Iowa	1944 and 1945
*Chester "Chet" Jaworski	G	Rhode Island State	1939
Ron Johnson	C	Minnesota	1959 and 1960
Vinnie Johnson	G	Baylor	1979
Paul Judson	G	Illinois	1956
Rich Kelley	C	Stanford	1975
*Walt Kirk	G	Illinois	1945
**Leo Klier	F	Notre Dame	1944 and 1946
Ed Koffenberger	C-F	Duke	1946 and 1947
Tom Kondla	C	Minnesota	1967
Ron Kramer	C	Michigan	1957
Dennis "Mo" Layton	G	Southern California	1971
Kevin Loder	F	Alabama State	1981
Stan Love	C	Oregon	1971
Jeff Malone	G	Mississippi State	1983
John Mandic	C	Oregon State	1942
Julius McCoy	F	Michigan State	1956
Banks McFadden	C	Clemson	1939
George McGinnis	F	Indiana	1971
*Jim McIntyre	C	Minnesota	1948 and 1949
Mark McNamara	C	California	1982
Carl McNulty	C	Purdue	1952
Chuck Mencel	G	Minnesota	1953 and 1955
Mike Mitchell	F	Auburn	1978
*Bill Mlkvy	F	Temple	1951
**Glen Max Morris	C-F	Northwestern	1945 and 1946
Jack Murdock	G	Wake Forest	1957
Phillip "Red" Murrell	F	Drake	1958
Don Nelson	F-C	Iowa	1961 and 1962
*Johnny Neumann	F-G	Mississippi	1971
Paul Neumann	G	Stanford	1959
Albert "Ab" Nicholas	G	Wisconsin	1952
Don Ohl	G	Illinois	1958
Frank Oleynick	G	Seattle	1975
Dick O'Neal	C	Texas Christian	1957
Bernie Opper	G	Kentucky	1939
**Kevin O'Shea	G	Notre Dame	1947 through 1950
Robert Parish	C	Centenary	1974 through 1976
Roger Phegley	G-F	Bradley	1978
Ricky Pierce	F-G	Rice	1982
Lou Pucillo	G	North Carolina State	1959
Dave Quabius	G	Marquette	1939
Ray Ragelis	F-C	Northwestern	1951
Jimmy Rayl	G	Indiana	1962 and 1963
Bob Rensberger	G	Notre Dame	1943
John Richter	C	North Carolina State	1959
Bill Ridley	G	Illinois	1956
Eddie Riska	F	Notre Dame	1941
Flynn Robinson	G	Wyoming	1965
Mike Robinson	G	Michigan State	1974
Wil Robinson	G	West Virginia	1972
Gene Rock	F-G	Southern California	1943
Marshall Rogers	G	Pan American	1976
Joe Ruklick	C	Northwestern	1959
**Dave Schellhase	F	Purdue	1965 and 1966
Harv Schmidt	F	Illinois	1957
Dave Scholz	F	Illinois	1969
Danny Schultz	G	Tennessee	1964
**Frank Selvy	F	Furman	1952 through 1954
*George Senesky	F-G	St. Joseph's	1943
*Bill Sharman	G	Southern California	1950
Gene Shue	F	Maryland	1953 and 1954
*Ben Simmons	F-G	Louisiana State	2016
Gary Simmons	G	Idaho	1958
Ralph Simpson	F-G	Michigan State	1970
Meyer "Whitey" Skoog	F-G	Minnesota	1949 through 1951
Doug Smart	C-F	Washington	1957 through 1959
Chris Smith	C	Virginia Tech	1960
Don Smith	C	Iowa State	1968
Glen Smith	F	Utah	1952
Forrest "Frosty" Sprowl	F	Purdue	1942
Bill Stauffer	F-C	Missouri	1952
Terry Teagle	G-F	Baylor	1982
Gary Thompson	G	Iowa State	1957
**Mychal Thompson	F-C	Minnesota	1977 and 1978
Rudy Tomjanovich	F	Michigan	1969 and 1970
Gene Tormohlen	C	Tennessee	1959
Walt Torrence	G-F	UCLA	1959
John Townsend	F	Michigan	1938
Vic "Slick" Townsend	G-F	Oregon	1941
Dick Van Arsdale	F	Indiana	1965
Tom Van Arsdale	F	Indiana	1965
Ernie Vandeweghe	F	Colgate	1949
*Grady Wallace	F	South Carolina	1957
Lou Watson	F-G	Indiana	1950
Nick Werkman	F	Seton Hall	1963
Paul Westphal	G	Southern California	1971 and 1972
*Murray Wier	G-F	Iowa	1948
Richard "Buzz" Wilkinson	G	Virginia	1955
*Freeman Williams	G	Portland State	1977 and 1978
Max Williams	G	Southern Methodist	1960
Sam Williams	F	Iowa	1968
*Mark Workman	C	West Virginia	1951 and 1952
George Yardley	F	Stanford	1950
Rich Yunkus	C	Georgia Tech	1970 and 1971

*Number of times named an NCAA consensus All-American.

NOTE: Flynn was a transfer from Washington State.

Prior to coronavirus cancellation four seasons ago, the national tourney in 2020 was expected to be a bonanza year for mid-majors with Dayton (Atlantic 10), Gonzaga (West Coast) and San Diego State (Mountain West) ranked in Top 10. When given an opportunity via an at-large invitation to the Big Dance, members from 11 different mid-major conferences have more than held their own against opponents from elite leagues. The greatest example was Virginia Commonwealth, which defeated members from five different power leagues en route to the 2011 Final Four. COVID-19 prevented VCU from possibility of duplicating at-large success three years ago.

It's blatantly clear mid-majors such as Indiana State this season should be given more consideration. After Colorado State (Virginia), Gonzaga (Kansas) and Utah State (Texas Christian) prevailed this year by an average of more than 20 points in these three outings, mid-major at-large entrants since 1992 included the following success totals against power-league members: Big Eight/Big 12 (24), Big East (19), Big Ten (16), SEC (15), ACC (14) and Pac-12 (11). The Zags' drubbing of KU was the Jayhawks' sixth setback against a mid-major at-large entrant since 1992. The following total of 41 different mid-major at-large entrants went on to win in the NCAA playoffs against a total of 55 different power-conference members (listed in reverse chronological order):