Answers (Day 16)

1. Indiana is the only school to have as many as four players score more than 14,000 points in the pros after never participating in the NCAA playoffs and NIT - Walt Bellamy (college years from 1959-61), George McGinnis (1971) and twins Dick and Tom Van Arsdale (1963-65). McGinnis averaged 30 points per game in his only season with the Hoosiers. Tom Van Arsdale, who finished his 12-year pro career with 14,232 points after playing for five different teams, is the highest scorer in NBA history to never participate in the NBA playoffs.

2. The only father-son combination to be on the rosters of two championship teams from the same school is Marques Johnson and his son, Kris, at UCLA. The elder Johnson averaged 11.6 points and 7.1 rebounds per game for coach John Wooden's final NCAA titlist in 1975. Johnson's son played sparingly for the '95 Bruins team after suffering an injury earlier in the season.

3. Don Schlundt, a 1955 draft choice of the defending NBA champion Syracuse Nationals, is the only player to never play in the NBA or ABA after averaging more than 20 points per game for an NCAA titlist. He averaged 25.4 ppg as a sophomore in 1953 when Indiana captured the title. Hoosiers teammate Dick Farley was a member of the NBA championship team at Syracuse, a franchise that moved to Philadelphia in the mid-1960s.

4. David Thompson is the only undergraduate non-center to average more than 23 points per game for a national champion (26 ppg). He became the last player to score the most points in a single game of a tournament and play for a championship team when he tossed in 40 points for North Carolina State as a junior forward in a 92-78 triumph over Providence in the 1974 East Regional semifinals.

5. Kentucky's Alex Groza, the Final Four Most Outstanding Player in 1948 and 1949, is the only individual to appear at a minimum of two Final Fours and be the game-high scorer in every Final Four contest he played. His brother, Lou Groza, was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame after the tackle/placekicker appeared in nine Pro Bowls.

6. Jack Ramsay is the only coach to win an NBA championship (Portland Trail Blazers '77) after directing a college to the Final Four (St. Joseph's '61).

7. In the 1956 Final Four, San Francisco's Bill Russell collected 17 points and 23 rebounds against SMU in the national semifinals and 26 points and 27 rebounds against Iowa in the championship game. The previous year, he amassed 23 points and 25 rebounds in the NCAA final against La Salle.

8. Howie Dallmar, a sophomore guard for 1942 champion Stanford, is the only Most Outstanding Player to coach a school other than his alma mater to the playoffs. Dallmar posted a 1-1 tourney record with Penn in 1953 before coaching Stanford for 21 years from 1955-75 without directing his alma mater to the NCAA playoffs. The principal culprit in denying Dallmar an NCAA appearance with the Cardinal was UCLA's dynasty under coach John Wooden. Dallmar, sent to Philadelphia by the Navy to attend pre-flight training school toward the end of World War II, completed his undergraduate work and used his final season of sports eligibility at Penn, where he was an NCAA consensus first-team All-American in 1945.

9. Indiana guard Keith Smart, selected Most Outstanding Player at the 1987 Final Four in New Orleans, is the only former junior college player to win the award. The eventual NBA coach spent a year flipping hamburgers at a fast-food restaurant in his hometown of Baton Rouge, La., during his first year out of high school.

10. In 1975, UCLA captured its 10th NCAA title in 12 years despite losing 103-81 at Washington, which finished in a tie for fifth place in the Pacific-8 Conference with a 6-8 record (16-10 overall). The next year, the Huskies were 22-6 with all-conference center James Edwards leading the way and made their first NCAA Tournament appearance since finishing third in 1953, when Bob Houbregs averaged 25.6 points per game.