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1.	Kentucky - perhaps you have heard of them - enters the tournament as the #1 overall seed, having lost in the national championship game last year. Last year's champion:
		Is a #3 seed
		Is a #12 seed
		Is a #8 seed
		Is not in the NCAA tournament this year

2.	Break out your countin' fingers: Kentucky enters the NCAA with a perfect record, having won this many games without losing any:
		36
		31
		34
		32

3.	In addition to Kentucky from the SEC, the other conferences that are home to the #1 seeds are:
		ACC and Big East
		ACC, Big East and Big 10
		Big East, Big 10 and Atlantic 10
		Big East and Big 10

4.	So, think hard. Of the #1 seeds in the tournament, how many are a #1 NCAA seed for the very first time this year?
		None
		One
		Two
		Three

5.	You know which two #1 seeds that will face winners of play-in games, right? Right??
		Yep, they are Villanova and Duke
		Sure, they are Kentucky and Duke
		Of course, we're talking about Kentucky and Wisconsin
		Duh, the teams are Wisconsin and Villanova

6.	(This, admittedly, is hard, so give yourself a nice hard pat on the back if you get it right....) The two # 6 seeds who will play winners of play-in games are:
		Butler and Xavier
		Providence and SMU
		SMU and Butler
		Xavier and Providence

7.	This school's mascot, shown here..... has to be the rootin'est, tootin'est of all this year's tournament participants:
		San Diego State
		New Mexico State
		Xavier
		Iowa

8.	All teams will attempt to follow the golden brick road to this city, home of this year's Final Four and national championship game:
		Indianapolis
		Detroit
		Memphis
		San Antonio

9.	And have you gotten used to the "First Four" concept yet? Yeah? No? Us neither. Anyway, the First Four games will be played within the friendly confines of scenic:
		Boulder, Colorado
		Oakland, California
		St. Louis, Missouri
		Dayton, Ohio

10.	If you want to catch a regional final, you'd be fine visiting any one of the following....as long as you didn't end up in:
		Cleveland
		Minneapolis
		Syracuse
		Houston

11.	If you have followed college hoops at all in recent years, you'll know that the coach pictured above has this team back in the tournament:
		Davidson
		VCU
		Indiana
		Arizona

12.	Teams for each of the following direction-based schools are all in the tournament this year, except for:
		Northeastern
		Eastern Washington
		West Virginia
		Northwestern

13.	Our friend Dan like pointing out that Northwestern, the answer to the previous question, is one of the "Futile Five" - schools who have been in the NCAA since its inception, yet has never gotten into the tournament. Which of the following is not also in this group of five (hint: the school in question is in the tournament this year):
		William and Mary
		The Citadel
		Albany
		St. Francis (Brooklyn)

14.	The Ivy League, which usually eschews a conference tournament, had to tack an extra game onto its conference schedule to decide who would go to the NCAAs. As it turned out.....
		Harvard beat Yale
		Yale beat Harvard
		Harvard beat Cornell
		Cornell beat Harvard

15.	They are the Anteaters:
		Robert Morris
		U.C. Irvine
		UAB
		North Dakota State

16.	And that must mean that people that go to this school predominantly root for the Lumberjacks:
		Manhattan
		Valparaiso
		Coastal Carolina
		Steven F. Austin

17.	Cats! Three of the following NCAA participants have feline-based team nicknames. Which does not?
		Lafayette
		Northern Iowa
		Davidson
		Belmont
		*By way of explanation.....* Lafayette Leopards, Northern Illinois Panthers, Davidson Wildcats. Belmont are the Bruins

18.	Dogs! Similarly, each of the following have canine-related nicknames, except:
		Wofford
		Albany
		North Dakota State
		Georgia
		*By way of explanation.....* Let's see...we have the Wofford Terriers, Albany Great Danes and Georgia Bulldogs. North Dakota State are the Bisons

19.	Which of the following won both its conference regular season and tournament championship?
		Gonzaga
		Wyoming
		Xavier
		Duke

20.	The number of the counting shall be 7. That is the number of teams that the Big 10 sends to the tournament, along with this conference:
		ACC
		Big East
		Conference USA
		Big 12

21.	And each of these conferences send a single team to the dance, except for.....
		Big Sky
		Colonial
		Mountain West
		Horizon

22.	Congratulations to this team, which celebrates its first ever birth in the NCAA tournament:
		Buffalo
		Texas Southern
		New Mexico State
		Robert Morris

23.	Also in the field of ~~64....~~ ~~68...~~ whatever, for the very first time, are the North Florida Ospreys, who play in this conference:
		Summit
		MEAC
		Atlantic Sun
		Southland

24.	This team enters the tournament having finished with the most difficult strength of schedule during the year:
		Notre Dame
		Providence
		Kansas
		Georgetown

25.	Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing....even when it means that your coach tears his Achilles during the conference tournament victory celebration...just ask the guy who coaches:
		Coastal Carolina
		Georgia State
		Wyoming
		UAB

26.	*Well, maybe winning isn't* the only thing: This school secured an NCAA birth with a losing record, coming into the tourney with a 16-17 mark:**
		Hampton
		Manhattan
		Boise State
		New Mexico State

27.	This team had to play the lion's share of its schedule without its regular head coach, who was sidelined with a scary diagnosis of unruptured aneurysm:
		Purdue
		Cincinnati
		Arkansas
		SMU

28.	If you won your conference tournament, please step forward. Whoa, not so fast there....
		Notre Dame
		Northern Iowa
		Maryland
		Arizona

29.	They are coached by "The Mayor":
		Iowa State
		Robert Morris
		Kentucky
		San Diego State

30.	And finally, this: I don't think it's [my team]......I'm a poor conference tournament coach. Following his team's exit from its conference tourney, who made the following proclamations....which might not necessarily fill his squad with confidence entering the NCAAs?
		Bill Self
		Roy Williams
		Steve Lavin
		Rick Pitino