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| 1. | Michigan State's Final Four appearance marked the Spartans' ______ Final Four appearance in ______ years under Tom Izzo: | ||
| 8th / 10 | |||
| 4th / 12 | |||
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6th / 12 | ||
| 9th / 15 | |||
| 2. | This Final Four team played so close to home, the players had to attend classes on Friday: | ||
| West Virginia | |||
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Butler | ||
| Duke | |||
| Michigan State | |||
| 3. | Fantasy baseball participants were left scrambling this week as it was announced that this starting pitcher will begin the season on the disabled list: | ||
| Chris Carpenter | |||
| Zack Greinke | |||
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Cliff Lee | ||
| Jamie Moyer | |||
| 4. | Artie Lange is feeling a particular sense of schadenfreude this week, as this cable sports program has been canceled: | ||
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Joe Buck Live | ||
| Inside the NFL | |||
| Around the Horn | |||
| Jim Rome Is Burning | |||
| 5. | Which mens' basketball team placed two members of its sqad on the AP All-American team? | ||
| Duke | |||
| Kansas | |||
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Kentucky | ||
| Syracuse | |||
| 6. | Next time you see this guy, the AP player of the year, congratulate him for us: | ||
| Kentucky's John Wall | |||
| Kansas's Sherron Collins | |||
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Ohio State's Evan Turner | ||
| West Virginia's Da'sean Butler | |||
| 7. | Three of these underclassmen declared for the NBA draft this week. Which of the following might return for another season at school? | ||
| Kansas's Cole Aldrich | |||
| Georgia Tech's Gani Lawal | |||
| Wake Forest's Al-Farouq Aminu | |||
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Georgetown's Greg Monroe | ||
| 8. | Meet the NIT winner: | ||
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Dayton | ||
| North Carolina | |||
| Rhode Island | |||
| Mississippi | |||
| 9. | Meet the College Basketball Invitational winner (sweeping both games of a best-of-three final), the tournament for teams too lousy to qualify for the NIT: | ||
| Boston University | |||
| Princeton | |||
| St. Louis | |||
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Virginia Commonwealth University | ||
| 10. | And finally, meet your CollegeInsider.com Tournament Champion, the tournament for teams too crappy to make the NIT or CBI: | ||
| Appalachian St. | |||
| Pacific | |||
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Missouri St. | ||
| Creighton | |||
| 11. | With so many teams that don't make the Big Dance playing postseason basketball, it's no surprise that the NCAA floated the idea of expanding the size of its tournament to this many teams: | ||
| 68, creating four play-in games instead of one | |||
| 72, with first round byes for 8 teams | |||
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96, with first round byes for 32 teams | ||
| 128, the total number of teams in the NCAA tournament, NIT, CBI and CIT combined | |||
| 12. | Assault charges have been brought against Santonio Holmes. What did Holmes allegedly throw at a woman, resulting in a cut above her eye? | ||
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A glass | ||
| A fist | |||
| A knife | |||
| A stapler | |||
| 13. | In the NCAA women's basketball tournament, UConn bludgeoned its way into the Final Four by winning its regional final game by _______ points: | ||
| 30 | |||
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40 | ||
| 55 | |||
| 60 | |||
| 14. | On the opposite end of the spectrum, which women's team won its regional final game by scoring a layup at the buzzer? | ||
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Stanford | ||
| Baylor | |||
| Tennessee | |||
| Rutgers | |||
| 15. | Having issued job offers to approximately 150 candidates, St. John's finally has a new head basketball coach. The unlucky fellow who will be heading up the Red Storm made a name for himself as the head coach of: | ||
| Michigan | |||
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UCLA | ||
| Air Force | |||
| Texas Tech | |||
| 16. | Meanwhile, Texas-El Pas hired Tim Floyd as its head basketball coach. Having courted controversy during his tenure at USC, Floyd had also flamed out during his brief tenure as the head coach of which of these NBA franchises? | ||
| Trailblazers | |||
| Timberwolves | |||
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Bulls | ||
| Knicks | |||
| 17. | Which NFL place kicker of note retired this week? | ||
| Mike Vanderjagt | |||
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Jason Elam | ||
| Adam Vinatieri | |||
| Gary Anderson | |||
| 18. | So you're Denard Span, fouling off a routine pitch in spring training action on Wednesday. In a particular brand of coincidence, that ball flies into the stands and hits: | ||
| You ex-wife | |||
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Your mother | ||
| The team mascot | |||
| Your long lost twin brother | |||
| 19. | All those NFL players who were *not* arrested for carrying a handgun in a US airport, please step forward. Not so fast, | ||
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Shaun Rogers | ||
| Brady Quinn | |||
| Brandon Marshall | |||
| Jeff Saturday | |||
| 20. | Which NBA big-shot inked a three-year contract extension this week? | ||
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Kobe Bryant | ||
| Paul Pierce | |||
| Carmelo Anthony | |||
| Carlos Boozer | |||
| 21. | The Indianapolis Star newspaper apologized to this Final Four participant after its Friday edition pictured him with devil horns and a target drawn on his head: | ||
| West Virginia coach Bob Huggins | |||
| Michigan State coach Tom Izzo | |||
| Duke player Jon Scheyer | |||
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Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski | ||
| 22. | This member of the Denver Nuggets severely overreacted to an April Fool's Day prank of having his car filled with buttered popcorn: | ||
| Nene | |||
| Carmelo Anthony | |||
| Chauncey Billups | |||
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Kenyon Martin | ||
| 23. | Long months of waiting have finally ended for those fans anticipating MLB Opening Day. Sunday night's Red Sox-Yankees matchup featured thee two starting pitchers | ||
| Josh Beckett & Andy Pettite | |||
| John Lackey & C.C. Sabathia | |||
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Josh Beckett & C.C. Sabathia | ||
| John Lackey & Andy Pettite | |||
| 24. | The Eagles surprised everyone by trading Donovan McNabb to: | ||
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A rival NFC East team | ||
| An NFC team outside the East | |||
| A 2010 AFC playoff team | |||
| The Raiders | |||
| 25. | Which Western Conference team secured its 13th straight playoff appearance with a win over the Lakers this week? | ||
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San Antonio | ||
| Dallas | |||
| Phoenix | |||
| Utah | |||
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