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Below, our Final Four quiz. Take out your blue books (Carolina blue, UCLA "true blue", or just Memphis or Kansas blue ... we don't care) and get to work. Answers on Page 3.

1. Who is the only coach in Kansas history with a losing record as the Jayhawks' coach?

2. Memphis enters the Final Four with a 37-1 record. Who is the last team to win the national championship when entering the Final Four with one loss and what is significant about the team they beat in the semis?

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3. Name the most prolific scorer in NBA history who a) never played for one of these Final Four schools, b) never played against one of them in a Final Four and c) is not named "Malone".

4. Only one player has ever led his team to the NCAA championship while also leading the nation in scoring. Name that player (Hint: This was the first national title won by any of these four schools).

5. Name the coach in this year's Final Four whose resume includes a school at which each of the other three coaches at one time or another has also coached.

6. What three schools not in the 2008 Final Four have the same number of national championships combined as UCLA and North Carolina (15)?

7. What presently inactive coach has direct ties to three of the programs in the Final Four and to the coach of the fourth program?

8. Time for everyone's favorite parlor game, "Six Degrees of Kevin Stacom" -- Connect the former Boston Celtic (and Indiana Pacer and Milwaukee Buck) guard to all four schools in as few steps as possible. Also, how many steps will it take you to connect him to the game's inventor?

9. If you'd been hanging around Wilmington, N.C., in the late 1970s, what two prominent people associated with two Final Four teams could you have watched playing hoops for their schools?

10. Tyler Hansbrough (North Carolina), Kevin Love (UCLA) and Derrick Rose (Memphis) were named first-team A.P. All-Americans earlier this week. Besides this being the first A.P. All-American starting five not to include a senior, can you name the last time three first-team All-Americans appeared in the same Final Four?


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