March Madness - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Coppin State. This year's madness began on Tuesday with Mount St. Mary's play-in win over Coppin State, which rode a hot streak into the event despite 20 losses and finished with the wrong kind of blackjack.
• A2) Kansas. In 1988, the Jayhawks captured a championship despite losing 11 of their 38 games.
• A3) Elvin Hayes. The Pro Basketball Hall of Famer pulled in 222 boards for Houston in 13 games for an average of 17.1 rebounds per game, including a record 97 in 1968.
• A4) Christian Laettner. The Duke forward netted 407 points over a record 23 games from 1989 to 1992. He also holds the career marks for free throws made and attempted (142 for 167).
• A5) Glen Rice. During Michigan's 1989 title run, the school's all-time leading scorer accounted for 184 of his team's 540 points.
• A6) Austin Carr. The Notre Dame guard netted 61 points in an opening round blowout of Ohio in 1970 and finished his tournament career with a record 41.3 average. Princeton Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley holds the Final Four record, dropping 58 points on Wichita State in 1965 during the discontinued consolation game.
• A7) Ohio. In both 1961 and 1962 Cincinnati held off cross-state rival Ohio State for the crown.
• A8) Indiana State. Larry Bird and the Sycamores lost a historic final to Magic Johnson and the Michigan State Spartans in 1979. UNLV was undefeated until Duke avenged their previous year's loss in the 1991 semifinals. No other recent team has entered the tournament undefeated.
• A9) "One Shining Moment". David Barrett's tune was originally supposed to follow the 1987 Super Bowl but was cut due to time constraints. A nimble switch from "The ball is kicked" to "The ball is tipped" and a tradition was born a few months later. I don't understand why Barrett left "feel the wind in your face" in the lyrics though.
• A10) False. In 2008, eight days after this quiz was initially posted, all four #1 seeds reached the Final Four. Previously, the closest year was 1993 with three #1 seeds and a #2 seed. On the women's side, all the top seeds reached the semifinals in 1989.
• A11) False. Allison Feaster led Harvard to a 71-67 upset of Stanford in the opening round in 1998 when two Cardinal starters were out with injuries.
• A12) Georgia. Both teams lost their semifinal games to the eventual tournament champion. In 2004, Connecticut became the first university to win both tournaments in the same season.