Answers (Day 13)

1. Center Danny Knight, who led Kansas in scoring with a 12.4-point average in 1974, was held scoreless when the Jayhawks bowed to Marquette in the national semifinals (64-51).

2. Oscar Robertson had nation-leading scoring averages of 32.6 points per game and 33.7 in powering Cincinnati to the national semifinals in 1959 and 1960, respectively, before the Bearcats were beaten both years by California. The Bears restricted the Big O to a total of 37 points in two Final Four games when he was just nine of 32 from the floor. He was at least 13 points below his scoring average each time Cincinnati was eliminated.

3. Michigan led the 1976 and 1992 national championship games at half-time before losing the finals by at least 18 points each to Indiana (32-0 record) and Duke (34-2), respectively.

4. Idaho State participated in its first NCAA Tournament in 1953 and proceeded to appear in the playoffs eight consecutive years, compiling a 4-8 record in that span under coaches Steve Belko, John Grayson and John Evans. The Bengals' last tournament triumph was in 1977 when they upset UCLA (76-75) to give the Bruins their first West Regional defeat since 1963.

5. Of Princeton's first 27 NCAA Tournament defeats, 15 of them were in the opening round (1952-55-60-63-69-76-77-81-89-90-91-92-97-01-04). The Tigers also lost a first-round game in 1984 after beating San Diego (65-56) in a qualifying round the NCAA conducted for two years when the fields were 52 and 53 teams.

6. Dave Winfield collected 3,110 hits, including 465 homers, in the major leagues after starting for a school making its first NCAA Tournament appearance (eight points and eight rebounds for Minnesota against eventual national runner-up Florida State in 1972). He participated in the World Series with the New York Yankees (1981) and Toronto Blue Jays (1992).

7. Center Steve Patterson (UCLA '71) is the only player to have a single-digit point total in a national semifinal game (six in 68-60 victory over Kansas) and then increase his output by more than 20 points in the championship game (game-high 29 in 68-62 victory over Villanova). Patterson hit 13 of 18 field-goal attempts against Villanova to finish the season shooting 42% from the floor.

8. Mike Farmer, a sophomore forward on San Francisco's undefeated 1956 NCAA champion, scored a game-high 26 points in an 86-68 victory over SMU in the national semifinals that year before going scoreless in an 83-71 triumph over Iowa in the championship game. Farmer, an NBA first-round draft choice in 1958, averaged 6.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game in six seasons in the league with three different teams.

9. Georgetown '87 is the only school to defeat two eventual Final Four teams by double-digit margins in their conference tournament. The Hoyas, after whipping Providence by 18 points and Syracuse by 10 to win the Big East Tournament, bowed to Providence by 15 in the Southeast Regional final.

10. Duke, the 1991 NCAA champion after finishing as national runner-up the previous year, is the only school to reach the NCAA Tournament final in back-to-back seasons it lost by double-digit margins in its conference tourney. The Blue Devils defeated Georgia Tech twice during regular-season competition before bowing to the Yellow Jackets by 11 points in the 1990 ACC Tournament semifinals. Then, Duke swept North Carolina during the regular season before getting trounced by the Tar Heels by 22 points in the 1991 ACC Tournament final.