Answers: Day 20

1. Cornell Green, a five-time Pro Bowl defensive back during his 12-year career with the Dallas Cowboys from 1962 through 1973, was one of the leading scorers in the 1962 NCAA Tournament with a 24.3-point average in three games for Utah State. But the Aggies were eliminated by John Wooden's first Final Four team at UCLA despite Green's game-high 26 points (73-62 in West Regional semifinals). Green played in Super Bowls V (16-13 last-second defeat against the Baltimore Colts) and VI (24-3 rout of the Miami Dolphins). In 1959, his brother, Pumpsie, became the first black player for the Boston Red Sox, the major leagues' last integrated team.

2. Center Bob Allen is the only player to be the leading scorer in an NCAA championship game while playing for his father. Phog Allen was coach of the '40 Kansas squad that lost in the final against Indiana (60-42) despite his son's 13 points, the lowest game-high total in NCAA final history.

3. Houston's Guy Lewis and Vern Lewis represent the only father/son combination to twice reach the Final Four together as coach and player. Vern, a guard on the 1967 and 1968 Final Four Cougar teams dominated by Elvin Hayes and Don Chaney, was a starter on the '68 squad that was undefeated until getting humbled by UCLA in the national semifinals (101-69).

4. Former Rhode Island/Texas/George Washington/Houston coach Tom Penders played in the NCAA Tournament and College World Series in his sophomore year (1965) while attending Connecticut. After playing briefly in the Cleveland Indians' farm system, Penders played fast-pitch softball for 15 years in the Amateur Softball Association, where he was named to the 1975 and 1976 National All-Star teams.

5. Alcorn State players E.J. Bell, Willie Howard, Joe Jenkins, Larry Smith and Clinton Wyatt participated in victories in the 1977 NAIA Tournament, 1979 NIT and 1980 NCAA Tournament under coach Davey Whitney. The Braves were unbeaten in 1979 until bowing in the second round, 73-69, at Indiana, the eventual NIT champion. Smith, known as Mr. Mean, averaged more than nine rebounds per game in 13 seasons in the NBA before becoming an assistant coach with the Houston Rockets and head coach of his alma mater.

6. Everett Shelton directed Wyoming to the title in the 1943 NCAA Division I Tournament and Sacramento State to a second-place finish in the 1962 Division II Tournament. Shelton finished his career with a 4-12 Division I playoff record, including three consecutive regional final defeats from 1947 through 1949.

7. National player of the year David Robinson accounted for 61% of Navy's offense by scoring 50 points in the Middies' 97-82 loss to Michigan in the first round of the 1987 East Regional.

8. Wally Szczerbiak is the only player to score more than two-thirds of his team's points in an NCAA Tournament game. He supplied 72.9% of Miami's offense by scoring 43 points in the RedHawks' 59-58 victory against Washington in the first round of the 1999 Midwest Regional. Szczberiak scored a staggering 53.6% of the RedHawks' points in their three outings.

9. Two-time NCAA champion Louisville (1980 and 1986) is the only school to win a small college national tournament before capturing a Division I championship. The Cardinals won the 1948 NAIA Tournament by defeating John Wooden-coached Indiana State in the final. Wooden guided UCLA to victories against Louisville in the 1972 and 1975 national semifinals. Louisville '86 is the only team to win an NCAA crown after setting or tying an existing school record for most defeats the previous season (19-18 mark in 1984-85).

10. Howard "Red" Hickey, a first-team All-Southwest Conference forward for Arkansas' 1941 Final Four team, was a good enough tackle in football to make the Razorbacks' all-decade team. Hickey, a lineman for six seasons in the NFL with two different franchises from 1941 through 1948, was a member of the 1945 champion Cleveland Rams. He coached the San Francisco 49ers for five years from 1959 through 1963, compiling a 27-27-1 record.