Answers (Day 18)

1. Glenn Wilkes, who retired at the end of the 1992-93 season, had a distinguished 36-year career at Stetson, the last 22 seasons after the school moved up to Division I. He is the only major-college coach, however, to finish with more than 500 victories and never participate in the NCAA playoffs.

2. Lennie Rosenbluth, a forward who averaged 28 points per game for undefeated 1957 champion North Carolina, played just two seasons in the NBA with Philadelphia. He averaged 4.2 points per game in 82 regular-season pro games and two points per game in four NBA playoff contests.

3. Harry Combes had 16 different All-Americans in his first 19 of 20 seasons as Illinois' mentor from 1947-48 through 1966-67. He guided the Illini to national third-place finishes in 1949, 1951 and 1952.

4. Center Robert Parish, who retired from the NBA after the 1996-97 season with 23,334 points, never participated in the NCAA Tournament or the NIT in his four-year career at Centenary from 1973-76. Centenary, after moving up to major-college status in 1960, has never appeared in either of the national postseason tourneys.

5. Jerry Lucas, who compiled the fourth-highest season scoring average of any player from a national championship team (26.3 points per game), scored a total of 35 points in two 1960 Final Four games when Ohio State coasted to the NCAA title.

6. Clem Haskins, a graduate of Western Kentucky, is the only individual to coach a team to the Final Four (Minnesota '97) after becoming an NCAA consensus first-team All-America and NBA first-round draft choice (Chicago Bulls in 1967). Haskins is generally considered the first black to earn a conference MVP (Ohio Valley) while attending a Southern school.

7. Chris Mullin, after averaging 25.5 points in St. John's first four playoff games in 1985, became the only national player of the year (UPI, USBWA and Wooden Award) to score less than 10 points when his school was eliminated in a Final Four contest. The Redmen were routed by Georgetown (77-59) in the national semifinals when Mullin was limited to eight points.

8. The only Final Four squad to have as many as six players with double-digit season scoring averages was UNLV '77 - forwards Eddie Owens (21.8 points per game) and Sam Smith (14.8); guards Glen Gondrezick (14.6), Reggie Theus (14.5) and Robert Smith (12.8) and center Lewis Brown (10.2). The Rebels, who averaged 107.1 as a team on their way to a national third-place finish, also had two other players come close to a double-figure scoring average - guard Tony Smith (9 ppg) and center Larry Moffett (8). Tony Smith was the only one of the eight UNLV players to never appear in an NBA game.

9. Vanderbilt guard Bill McCaffrey earned a spot on the 1991 All-Tournament team by scoring 16 points to help Duke defeat Kansas (72-65) in the championship game. He transferred before the next season although he was the Blue Devils' second-leading scorer as a sophomore. His brother, Ed, was a wide receiver with the New York Giants and Denver Broncos after graduating from Stanford.

10. Dwight "Dike" Eddleman was named the Big Ten Most Valuable Player by the Chicago Tribune in 1949 when he was the leading scorer for Illinois' national third-place finisher in basketball. In football, he played both offense and defense, punted and returned kicks, and played in the 1947 Rose Bowl for a team that overwhelmed UCLA, 45-14. He returned punts 92 and 89 yards for touchdowns the next season as a junior. In his senior year, Eddleman ranked third in the nation with 42.9-yard punting average, including an 88-yarder. Eddleman, interrupting his collegiate career by joining the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, earned an amazing 11 varsity letters at Illinois. He won three Big Ten high jump titles and his greatest athletic achievement probably was winning a silver medal in the high jump at the 1948 Olympics in London. Eddleman played only four pro basketball seasons, but participated in two NBA All-Star Games (1951 and 1952).