College Exam: Day 2 Answers to NCAA Tournament Trivia Questions

1. UCLA's Lew Alcindor averaged 25.7 points and 18.8 rebounds and shot 64 percent from the floor in six Final Four games from 1967 through 1969 to help boost the Bruins to three consecutive championships. Alcindor hit 15 of 21 field-goal attempts in the 1968 final against North Carolina and 15 of 20 shots from the floor in the 1969 final against Purdue. He subsequently changed his name from Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

2. Tubby Smith is the only coach to twice guide three different schools to the NCAA playoffs in the same decade - Tulsa (1994 and 1995), Georgia (1996 and 1997) and Kentucky (1998 and 1999). He had two different sons play for him in the tourney - G.G. at Georgia and Saul at Kentucky.

3. Nigerian import Hakeem Olajuwon, who averaged a modest 13.3 points per game in helping Houston reach three consecutive Final Fours from 1982 through 1984, collected a total of 41 points and 40 rebounds in two Final Four games in 1983 when the Cougars finished runner-up to North Carolina State.

4. Guy Lewis guided Houston to 26 playoff wins from 1967-84, but he failed to win the title each of the five times the Cougars reached the Final Four under him (1967, 1968, 1982, 1983 and 1984) when they were eliminated by the champion.

5. Arizona State has participated in 13 NCAA Tournaments, but is the only current Pacific-12 member never to reach the national semifinals. The three Pac-12 schools making more playoff appearances than the Sun Devils are Arizona, Oregon State and UCLA. ASU, featuring four upperclassmen who combined for a total of more than 35 seasons in the NBA (guards Fat Lever and Byron Scott, center Alton Lister and forward Sam Williams), became one of the biggest busts in tourney history when the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Regional lost their 1981 playoff opener against Kansas (88-71).

6. All five SEC entrants lost their first-round game in 1989. The only four schools to lose an opening-round game by more than 20 points to teams seeded 10th or worse all are SEC members - Alabama lost to No. 11 seed Lamar (73-50) in 1983, LSU lost to No. 13 Navy (78-55) in 1985, Florida lost to No. 10 Colorado State (68-46) in 1989 and Mississippi State lost to No. 12 Eastern Michigan (78-56) in 1991.

7. Eddie Sutton was the only coach in the 20th Century to direct four different schools in the NCAA Tournament - Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma State.

8. Ed Jucker directed Cincinnati to titles in 1961 and 1962 on the heels of Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson leading the nation in scoring in 1958, 1959 and 1960 with a career average of 33.8 points per game for the Bearcats.

9. Rick Barnes is 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 (Providence and Texas). He 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.

10. All-American Larry Bird led Indiana State (33-1) to the 1979 championship game. The coach of the Sycamores that year was Bill Hodges.