Emily's Trivia Quiz: Shootin' Some B-ball Outside of the School

There are many things I wanted to write about, I just can't determine which is the best topic to pursue.  There are a lot of bests and worsts in my book, but it would be hard to quiz you all on it, because you can't read my mind. In the spirit of applying to graduate schools and then being faced with the challenging task of choosing which teams I want to advance in my brackets for the NCAA Tournament and not wanting to jinx my chances of getting into said schools by making them loose in the first or second rounds, I have been thinking a lot about the “best” schools. Yes, I chose my undergraduate school based partially on their performance in the 2002 NCAA Tournament. And it would be nice to let that happen again. But what really defines a school at being the best?

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(Watch how this goes from actually being about the "best" in basketball and academics quickly to just being about basketball and not about superlatives at all.  Sorry.  It's late.  I'm tired.)

1. According to U.S. News and World Report, which of the following schools in this year’s Men’s NCAA Tournament are “the best" in academics?
a. Harvard University
b. Princeton University
c. Yale University
d. Stanford University

2. Which of the top men’s basketball teams this year is also one of the top on U.S. N & W R’s top 50 list?
a. Georgetown
b. UNC Chapel Hill
c. Wake Forest
d. Duke

3. True or False, when choosing a school to attend for your undergraduate education, you should pay way more attention in how they do academic ranking than they do in sports.

4. Check this website for fun: http://www.rankyourcollege.com/ddmethod.html and refresh every second or so. 

5. When and who played the first college basketball game?
a)1896 - University of Iowa vs. University of Chicago
b) 1910 - Harvard vs. Yale
c) 1915 - University of North Carolina vs. Duke
d) 1919 – Vanderbilt University vs. Syracuse University

6. When was the first college game where a three point shot was made?
a. 1920
b. 1940
c. 1960
d. 1980

7. What is the most common mascot for colleges?
a. Turtle
b. Eagle
c. Bulldog
d. Knight

8. In the first women’s college basketball game, how many players were on a team?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9

9. When was the first NCAA College Basketball Tournament?
a. 1934
b. 1937
c. 1939
d. 1940

10. What was illegal in college basketball from 1967-1976?
a. The three-pointer
b. Shorts longer than your knee
c. Afros
d. The slam dunk

Answers:
1. Stanford.  The women of Harvard and Stanford as well as the three graduate schools I applied to made it to the dance this year though.  To me, this means that girls are more well-rounded.
2. NOT DUKE!  They just lost to Virginia Commonwealth University.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love March!  (Oh the other three are on the list of good schools).
3. FALSE.  Those rankings are dumb and everyone knows overbearing parents put wayyyy too much weight on them.  You want to have fun in college.  Go to a school with good sports teams that you will have fun cheering for.  Not that anyone who reads this hasn’t already graduated, but I think this is sound advice.  It is also how I chose my college.  And it is probably how I will choose my graduate school based on the women’s tournament.
4. This was not a question.  It is my weak attempt to lengthen this quiz.
5. a) 1896 - University of Iowa vs. University of Chicago. On January 18, 1896, the University of Iowa played student athletes from the University of Chicago in a basketball game. The University of Chicago won the game 15 to 12.
6. d. 1980. On November 29, 1980, Western Carolina’s Ronnie Carr scored the first three pointer in college basketball history. Western Carolina was playing Middle Tennessee State at Reid Gym in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
7. b. Eagle. 74 colleges and universities claim the Eagle as their mascot. The tiger is the second most common mascot, then the Bulldogs(3rd) followed by Knights in 4th.
8. 9.  The first women's college basketball game was played on April 4, 1896 in San Francisco between Stanford and Cal. Stanford won the game 2-1.  Yes, 2-1. There were nine players on each side and players could only play in certain areas of the court.  Women weren't allowed to steal the ball from each other because it was considered "unladylike" and they had to wear clothes that covered every part of their body except their hands and face.  Awesome.
9. c. 1939
10. The slam dunk

Enjoy this video of some slam dunks in 1995. Also, watch this below, but not at work, because there is bad language (sorry doug.):

Comments

[Caitlar]

Stanford made the dance. They just lost to Texas A&M. But are you asking whether they made the tourney or if they were named the best? I'm confused!

[emgusk]

you're right, i'm fixing it! sorry i wrote this when i was half asleep. i'm a terrible blogger.

[the mayor]

kids should choose their college based on what will cost the least amount of money. luckily, this tends to overlap with the schools with the best teams (go public schools!).