Answer: Big East Conference
Until 1975, Villanova competed as an independent program, not aligned with any conference. That year it became a member of the Eastern Athletic Association, popularly known as the Eastern Eight, along with Pittsburgh, Penn State, West Virginia and four others. In 1980, the Wildcats moved into the Big East, established to be a primarily basketball league which would compete at a national level without big time football programs driving the athletic departments. Georgetown, St. Johns and Syracuse were other charter members. The 1980s were the heyday of the Big East. The conference routinely sent six or more teams to the NCAA tournament, and in 1985, three big east teams made the Final Four, with Villanova winning it all.
From Quiz: Game For The Ages: 2016 Men's Basketball Final
Answer: NC State
Led by legendary head coach Everett Case, the Wolfpack of NC State defeated the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest, under head coach Murray Greason, 82-80 in overtime to win the very first ACC Tournament. The tournament was played at Reynolds Coliseum, the home court of the Wolfpack, that year and every year until 1966. The Deacons worked overtime to get to the championship game that season, defeating the South Carolina Gamecocks 58-57 in overtime in the quarterfinals and the Maryland Terrapins 64-56 in the semifinals. Wake Forest's Dickie Hemric won the very first ACC Tournament MVP, despite playing on the losing squad.
The eight charter members were - Clemson, Duke, Maryland, NC State, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Wake Forest.
From Quiz: The ACC Tournament
Answer: Thompson-Boling Arena
Thompson-Boling Arena, home of the Tennessee Volunteers, had a seating capacity of nearly 25,000 before it's 2007 renovation. The Carrier Dome had a larger seating capacity with 33,000, but it also hosted Syracuse's football games.
From Quiz: NCAA Basketball Venues
Answer: Earvin Johnson
Earvin Johnson changed forever what it meant to be a guard in college basketball. He was a "floor man", not an "air man". Johnson's passing was indeed magical, and his assists record indicated his unselfishness.
From Quiz: Michigan State Spartans
Answer: Memorial Gymnasium
Memorial Gym is one of the older facilities in college basketball. It was built in 1952 and has a seating capacity of over 14,000. It was dedicated to Vanderbilt students and alumni who were killed during WWII. It has been referred to as the "Fenway Park of college basketball", and Vanderbilt's many last-second wins and upsets there have led to sportswriters referring to the phenomena as "Memorial Magic".
From Quiz: Vanderbilt University Men's Basketball
Answer: Lewisburg, PA
Lewisburg is a beautiful college town on the banks of the Susquehanna river in Central PA.
From Quiz: Bucknell Bison NCAA Basketball
Answer: Orange, blue, and green
The Gator is green, and it has blue and orange in the background.
From Quiz: Florida Gators
Answer: Zach Curlin
Zach Curlin began coaching the Memphis Tigers in 1924. He remained the coach until 1948, where the school had changed their name to Memphis State College. Zach Curlin street is on the eastern side of the University of Memphis campus.
From Quiz: Ultimate Memphis Tigers
Answer: Lafayette YMCA
This game was held at the "old gym" in West Lafayette in 1896.
From Quiz: Purdue University Basketball: Boiler Up!
Answer: Roosevelt Chapman
Roosevelt (Velvet) Chapman played for the University of Dayton from 1980-1984. Roosevelt Chapman completed his career as the university's all-time leading scorer with 2233 points. Ed Young had 1253 total points. Dan Patrick graduated UD as Dan Pugh, but did not play basketball, instead is known as a former ESPN Sports Anchor. Anthony Grant had 902 total points.
From Quiz: Dayton Flyer Basketball
Answer: Larry Johnson
Larry Johnson received this honorable award in 1991. Larry Johnson then went on to be the the number one draft pick in the 1991 NBA draft.
From Quiz: UNLV Basics [2]
Answer: 1958
UNLV became a school in 1957, and adopted its basketball program in 1958. Back the it was actually called Southern Division of the University of Nevada.
From Quiz: UNLV Basics [1]
Answer: Danny & the Miracles
Danny Manning was the Naismith winner in 1988, and was the NCAA tournament's Most Outstanding Player. They went through 3 teams that had previously beaten them earlier that year; Duke, Kansas State, and the NCAA runner-up, Oklahoma.
From Quiz: Kansas Jayhawk Basketball
Answer: 1958
UC reached its first NCAA Tournament in 1958 and went 1-1.
From Quiz: Cincinnati Basketball in the NCAA
Answer: 1
Center Aaron Gray made the NCAA All-American list.
From Quiz: Pittsburgh Panthers Basketball
Answer: Charles Bemies
The first established coach for Michigan Agricultural College (MSU), Charels Bemies was the first athletic director in school history, while also coaching the football, baseball and track teams. Bermies led the Spartans for two seasons with an overall record of 5-2 (.714), including a heartbreaking loss to Olivet by a score of 5-6.
From Quiz: Michigan State University Basketball
Answer: Sophomore
He averaged 13.4 points per game and 3.1 assists per game last season.
From Quiz: Memphis Tigers
Answer: Kentucky
Kentucky, led by legendary coach Adolf Rupp, soundly beat the Cavs 99-73 on November 21, 1965.
From Quiz: Virginia Cavalier Basketball
Answer: North Carolina
North Carolina blew a sigh of relief when, with 11 seconds remaining and the score at 73-71, Chris Webber called a timeout. But there were no time outs remaining for Michigan, causing a technical foul and UNC hitting both free throws to take a game-winning 75-71 lead. They won 77-71.
From Quiz: NCAA College Basketball
Answer: Freddie Owens
The Badgers came from 13 points behind with 4:08 remaining to beat 13th seeded Tulsa. It was capped off by Owens' shot from the corner to send the Badgers to the Sweet 16, where they fell to number one seeded Kentucky.
From Quiz: Badger Basketball
Answer: Jay Wright
The Wildcats were the 2nd NCAA school that Jay Wright coached for.
From Quiz: Villanova Men's Basketball
Answer: Temple
In a field that consisted of just six teams, the Temple Owls defeated the Colorado Buffaloes 60-36 to win the very first National Invitational Tournament. Don Shields of Temple was named as the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
From Quiz: National Invitational Tournament
Answer: Bobby Jackson, Eric Harris, Sam Jacobson, John Thomas, Courtney James
This lineup was not good enough to get past Kentucky who beat them 78-69.
From Quiz: Minnesota Golden Gophers Basketball
Answer: 1985
Tara VanDerveer became the third Stanford coach since the program started in the 1970s.
From Quiz: Stanford Women's Basketball
Answer: Mike Grinnon
Dixon was a great player, but never led the Terps to an ACC Championship.
From Quiz: Maryland Terrapins Basketball
Answer: Texas Western
Texas Western (now the University of Texas at El Paso, or UTEP) won a landmark game in which their 5 African-American starters defeated Kentucky's all white lineup in the NCAA final.
From Quiz: The UCLA Basketball Dynasty: 1964-1975
Answer: 10-19
They went 10-19 with some good wins against Syracuse and Notre Dame.
From Quiz: WVU Basketball in the 1990s
Answer: Rutgers Scarlet Knights
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights played at the Louis Brown Athletic Center in Piscataway, New Jersey.
From Quiz: Basketball Teams and Arenas
Answer: WCC
The Bulldogs compete in the West Coast Conference (WCC) with St. Mary's, Santa Clara, Pepperdine, San Diego, Portland, Loyola Marymount, and San Francisco.
From Quiz: Gonzaga Bulldogs
Answer: Fred Hoiberg
Ames native Fred Hoiberg was dubbed "The Mayor" because he was so popular, he actualy got votes for the mayor election.
From Quiz: Iowa State Cyclones Basketball
Answer: Cheryl Miller
Miller led USC to the national title in '83 & '84.
From Quiz: NCAA Women's Basketball Final Fours
Answer: Rice
The Rice Owls defeated Idaho State 76-46, St. Mary's California 69-55 and Washington State 64-49 to win the Top of the World Classic.
From Quiz: Top of the World Classic
Answer: Casey Calvary
He tipped a shot from Rich Frahm with 1 second left to advance to the Elite Eight.
From Quiz: Bulldog Madness
Answer: College Park
College Station is where Texas A&M is located, Austin is University of Texas, and Baltimore is home to Johns Hopkins, as well as University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).
From Quiz: Division I Universities
Answer: Dereck Whittenburg
Charles caught the missed shot and dunked it in as the clock went to 0:00.
From Quiz: NC State Basketball: 1983 Season
Answer: 1984-85
Villanova won the NCAA tournament with a 66-64 victory over Georgetown, becoming the lowest seeded team to win the NCAA's(8), a record untouched going into the 2003 season.
From Quiz: College Basketball Facts
Answer: B.J. Armstrong
B.J. Armstrong was the starting point guard, when the Chicago Bulls won three consecutive NBA titles in the 90s.
From Quiz: Iowa Hawkeyes
Answer: Nick Anderson
Nick hit that shot the year that Illinois went to the final four. Unfortunately they lost to Michigan in the final four.
From Quiz: Fighting Illini Men's Basketball
Answer: Syracuse
UConn fell to cuse 59-42.
From Quiz: UConn Huskies 1999 National Champions
Answer: Houston
UCLA and Houston were 1-2 in 1968, but played only in the regular season and national semi-finals. The Bruins beat UNC in 1968, UK in 1975, and Purdue in 1969.
From Quiz: Extreme NCAA Basketball
