Prior to coronavirus cancellation six seasons ago, the national tourney in 2020 was expected to be a bonanza year for mid-majors with Dayton (Atlantic 10), Gonzaga (West Coast) and San Diego State (Mountain West) ranked in national Top 10 polls. When given an opportunity via an at-large invitation to the Big Dance, members from 11 different mid-major conferences have more than held their own against opponents from elite leagues. The greatest example was Virginia Commonwealth, which defeated members from five different power leagues en route to the 2011 Final Four. COVID-19 prevented VCU from possibility of duplicating at-large success three years ago.

It's blatantly clear mid-majors should be given more consideration. After Miami of Ohio and Saint Louis both duplicated their 1995 at-large success this year, mid-major at-large entrants since 1992 included the following success totals against power-league members: Big Eight/Big 12 (24), Big East (20), SEC (17), Big Ten (16), ACC (15) and Pac-12 (11). Kansas has incurred six such setbacks against a mid-major at-large entrant since 1992. The following total of 41 different mid-major at-large entrants went on to win in the NCAA playoffs against a total of 55 different power-conference members (listed in reverse chronological order):

NOTE: Brigham Young (Big 12), Butler (Big East), Cincinnati (Big East before Big 12), Houston (Big 12), Louisville (Big East before ACC), Utah (Pac-12 before Big 12) and Xavier (Big East) subsequently joined a power conference.

Connecticut senior Tarris Reed Jr., averaging 8.9 and 6.7 in his four-year college career commencing at Michigan, exploded for 31 points and 27 rebounds against Furman in opening round of East Regional. He became the first player in 58 years to exceed 30 points and 25 rebounds in a single playoff outing.

Providing a little leeway in board work, preliminary research indicates Reed is the only non-All-American to accumulate at least 30 points and 20 rebounds in a tourney tilt since Colorado State's Sonny Bustion contributed a 30/20 effort against Oklahoma City in the 1965 West Regional First Round. Incredibly, Houston's Elvin Hayes and Ohio State's Jerry Lucas went 30/25 in multiple playoff games. Reed, a St. Louis native who averaged a modest 8.5 ppg and 7.5 rpg in two playoff contests last year, joined the following exclusive company in the NCAA Tournament 30/25 Club (rebounds weren't comprehensively tracked until the mid-1950s):

A modest total of 14 individuals have emerged victorious as both an All-American player and head coach in NCAA Tournament competition. Duke's Jon Scheyer is the only individual at least six games above .500 in each category after the Blue Devils reaching 9-3 marks as both player and coach upon winning 2026 playoff opener.

Indiana's Branch McCracken, who directed the Hoosiers to NCAA tourney titles in 1940 and 1953, is the only one of the first 69 All-Americans becoming major-college mentors to finish his coaching career compiling a higher winning percentage as coach. But McCracken and Whitey Baccus, Tom Churchill, Jack Gray, Moose Krause plus John Wooden were A-As before the NCAA Tournament was introduced in 1939. More than 40 All-Americans who became major-college coaches either did not play or coach in NCAA playoffs. Six Duke graduates are among the following alphabetical list of 25 individuals participating in national tourney as an All-American player and bench boss (nine of them guiding their alma mater):

Unless you're still busy hoarding toilet paper, seeking translator to figure out what Plagiarist Biledumb is talking about, taking hand-gesturing classes with the "Newscums" or cowering in fetal position because of alleged impending climate-change catastrophe, it's your opportunity to start taking online tests for 23 quarantined days symbolic of normal time frame from Selection Sunday to Monday evening championship contest.

We need something to occupy our minds during quarantine from much of the invective-infected #MessMedia. Emphasizing a "one-and-only" theme for a "one-and-only" event, here is Day 7 of a treasure-trove of tantalizing NCAA Tournament trivia questions from CollegeHoopedia.com tracking the only coach, conference, player or school to be linked to a distinguished or dubious achievement (click here for answers or conduct research digesting historical morsels in CollegeHoopedia's year-by-year highlights):

1. Name the only coach to grace the NCAA playoffs in five decades. Hint: He achieved the feat with four different universities.

2. Who is the only player to score a team-high point total in his prominent school's first NCAA Tournament victory the same year he earned All-American honors as a quarterback for a national football champion? Hint: He later became executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame after coaching two different universities when they participated in the Rose Bowl.

3. Who is the only individual to be more than 10 games below .500 in his initial campaign as a major-college head coach and subsequently guide a team to a national championship? Hint: He won his last 10 NCAA Tournament games decided by fewer than five points. In his last two playoff appearances with the former titlist, it became the only school to receive at-large bids in back-to-back years with as many as 14 defeats entering the tourney.

4. Name the only school to be denied three NCAA Tournament berths because it was on probation. Hint: The three times the school didn't participate in the national playoffs because of NCAA probation were from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.

5. Who was the only player to score more than 40 points in his first tournament game? Hint: The university left the Division I level for 28 years and was UCLA's first victim when the Bruins started a 38-game winning streak in the playoffs. He and his twin brother were infielders together with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

6. Name the only school to deploy just five players in an entire championship game. Hint: The school, participating in the playoffs for the first time that year, set a record for largest winning margin with a 69-point victory in its first-round game. The school is the only former NCAA champion never to compete against legendary coaches Bob Knight and Dean Smith.

7. Who is the only individual to go as many as 25 years between coaching teams in the NCAA Tournament? Hint: His first two playoff teams were eliminated in their tourney openers by eventual championship game participants.

8. Name the only school to have more than one two-time first-team All-American never reach the Final Four. Hint: One of the players is the only three-time first-team All-America to fail to appear in the NCAA playoffs. The school is the only top four seed to lose a first-round game by more than 20 points.

9. Who is the only player to have season scoring averages of fewer than 10 points per game in back-to-back years he was named to the All-NCAA Tournament team? Hint: His school reached the national championship game each season and had two different centers named Final Four Most Outstanding Player. Also, he is part of the only set of brothers to play together in two NCAA title games. One of their teammates became a marquee coach.

10. Who is the only individual to play for an NCAA basketball champion and in a major league baseball World Series? Hint: He was primarily a relief pitcher for six different teams in 13 big league seasons from 1975 through 1989.

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Brandon Ingram (Kinston, NC) came close to becoming an All-American selection for Duke nine years ago but fell short; especially following a 10-turnover outing at Louisville. Several years ago, Harry Giles (Winston-Salem, NC) was hyped as a freshman phenom but averaged an anemic 3.9 ppg and 3.8 rpg while contributing total of only nine assists in 26 games after incurring a knee injury. Neither Giles nor Ingram achieved a distinction generated by no other A-A in the school's illustrious history.

This season, Florida product Cameron Boozer became the 48th different individual to become an All-American for Duke (34 under coach Mike Krzyzewski). Incredibly, none of them spent their formative years in any of North Carolina's 100 counties and can be counted as in-state recruits. It doesn't seem possible, but State of North Carolina laid a Blue Devils' goose egg while states such as Alaska, Connecticut, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma and Oregon also contributed to their list of All-Americans.

By contrast, the North Carolina Tar Heels had in-state talent account for multiple-year All-Americans such as Phil Ford, Antawn Jamison, Michael Jordan, Rashad McCants and James Worthy. The official web site of the State of North Carolina says the state is "a better place." But it hasn't been for Duke in regard to securing premium players prior to Ingram. Following is an alphabetical list detailing the hometowns of Duke's 47 All-Americans coming from 24 different states plus the District of Columbia and Canada:

In an era of deity Dr. Fraudci covid manipulation and spewing of nonsense about data function research plus suspect voting practices, let's see if you genuinely want to be guided by data. Only seven individuals have coached more than 15 All-Americans with one major college. Twelve years ago, retired Duke icon Mike Krzyzewski broke a tie with Kentucky's Adolph Rupp and moved atop this list.

In one of the most overlooked achievements in NCAA history current Champaign bench boss Brad Underwood should know about, Harry Combes amassed 16 different All-Americans in his first 19 of 20 seasons as Illinois' mentor from 1947-48 through 1966-67 although more than half of them shot less than 40% from the floor during their careers. No other coach accumulated more than 13 All-Americans in his first 20 campaigns with a single school - North Carolina's Dean Smith (13 in first 20 seasons), Indiana's Bob Knight (12), Krzyzewski (12), Rupp (12), Indiana's Branch McCracken (11), Arizona's Lute Olson (11), UCLA's John Wooden (10) and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim (eight) - until former Illini mentor Bill Self (Kansas) moved into a tie for runner-up with Adolph Rupp (Kentucky) behind Coach K. Self was slated to move ahead of Rupp this year but guard Darryn Peterson missed a significant amount of time with questionable cramping issues. Recruiting the Chicago metropolitan area isn't a panacea for the Illini, which should remember how 22 different major-college All-Americans in less than 30 years in an earlier era came from Illinois high schools located in towns featuring populations smaller than 20,000.

As a means of comparison, keep in mind inactive NCAA Division I national coaches of the year P.J. Carlesimo, Perry Clark, Tom Davis, Eddie Fogler, Jim Harrick, Marv Harshman, Clem Haskins, Maury John, Jim O'Brien, George Raveling, Charlie Spoonhour and Butch van Breda Kolff combined for 17 All-Americans in a cumulative 251 years coaching at the major-college level. John Calipari collected 12 different A-As in his first 15 campaigns with Kentucky. Following is list of the seven coaches with most different All-Americans at one university:

NOTE: Respected retired mentors Gale Catlett, Mike Deane, Bill Henderson, Shelby Metcalf, Stan Morrison, Bob Polk, Charlie Spoonhour and Ralph Willard never had an All-American despite at least 18 seasons coaching at the major-college level.

After Richmond shocked Jim Boeheim-coached Syracuse in 1991 and Santa Clara kayoed Lute Olson's Arizona squad in 1993, the next three #15 seed victories over #2 seeds came at the hands of historically-black colleges and universities - Coppin State over South Carolina in 1997, Hampton over Iowa State in 2001 and Norfolk State over Missouri in 2012.

However, no HBCU institution has reached the Sweet 16. Perceived in most quarters as picking-on-patsies fodder, the truth about black crime in basketball is that it's a big sin many fans don't know or can't recall the high degree of success historically-black colleges and universities enjoyed at the small-college level. For instance, Norfolk State appeared in the NCAA Division II Tournament 10 times in a 12-year span from 1984 until finishing third in the 1995 tourney. But most of these HBCU institutions currently are imprisoned at the NCAA Division I level, where they are little more than indentured servants doing the bidding of their major-university masters almost always getting whipped on the road during non-conference competition.

What many observers should know is seven different historically black colleges and universities advancing to the NCAA DI level captured a total of nine NAIA and NCAA College Division Tournament championships in a 21-year span from 1957 through 1977 (Tennessee State from 1957 through 1959, Grambling '61, Prairie View A&M '62, Winston-Salem State '67, Morgan State '74, Coppin State '76 and Texas Southern '77). Coppin State was the lone school in this group to go on and post a triumph in the NCAA Division I playoffs until newcomer Grambling State outlasted Montana State in overtime last year. Success wasn't so difficult to find for Grambling at the small-college level 60 years ago. Beginning with third-rounder Charles Hardnett in 1962, the Tigers supplied one of the top 21 NBA draft choices four consecutive years through 1965.

Winson-Salem State saw what life looked like on the DI side of the fence and abandoned ship after only one season. All but two of the 25 HBCUs endured at least one season with 20 defeats in a six-year span from 2003-04 through 2008-09. The pair that emerged unscathed during that stretch were Hampton (worst record was 13-17 in 2003-04) and Norfolk State (11-19 in 2006-07).

Despite both leagues prevailing in the same year for the second time this season (first was 2021), conference members from the Mid-Eastern Athletic and Southwestern Athletic have won only 10% of their NCAA Division I Tournament games. Alcorn State registered the first three of the following modest total of 18 HBCU wins in the DI tourney versus non-HBCU competition (eight in preliminary-round competition; SWAC's Texas Southern matched up against MEAC's North Carolina Central in First Four in 2018) since the SWAC and MEAC moved up to the Division I level in 1979-80 and 1980-81, respectively:

1980 Midwest First Round: #8 Alcorn State 70 (Baker/Smith team-high 18 points), #9 South Alabama 62 (Rains 22)
1983 Midwest Preliminary Round: Alcorn State 81 (Phelps 18), Xavier 75 (Fleming 16)
1984 Midwest Preliminary Round: Alcorn State 79 (Phelps 21), Houston Baptist 60 (Lavodrama 14)
1993 West First Round: #13 Southern LA 93 (Scales 27), #4 Georgia Tech 78 (Mackey 27)
1997 East First Round: #15 Coppin State 78 (Singletary 22), #2 South Carolina 65 (McKie 16)
2001 West First Round: #15 Hampton 58 (Williams 16), #2 Iowa State 57 (Rancik/Shirley 10)
2004 Preliminary Round: Florida A&M 72 (Woods 21), Lehigh 57 (Tempest 13)
2010 Preliminary Round: Arkansas-Pine Bluff 61 (Smith 14), Winthrop 44 (Corbin 13)
2012 West First Round: #15 Norfolk State 86 (O'Quinn 26), #2 Missouri (Dixon 22)
2013 Preliminary Round: North Carolina A&T 73 (Underwood 19), Liberty 72 (Marshall 22)
2015 Preliminary Round: Hampton 74 (Chievous/Johnson 15), Manhattan 64 (Richards 17)
2021 Preliminary Round: Texas Southern 60 (Walker III 19), Mount St. Mary's 52 (Chong Qui 14)
2021 Preliminary Round: Norfolk State 54 (Hawkins 24), Appalachian State 53 (Forrest 18)
2022 Preliminary Round: Texas Southern 76 (Etienne 21), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (67 (Tennyson 18)
2024 Preliminary Round: Grambling State 88 (Cofer 19), Montana State 81 (Ford 26)
2025 Preliminary Round: Alabama State 70 (Knox 16), Saint Francis PA 68 (Cranford Jr. 18)
2026 Preliminary Round: Howard University 86 (Okojie 23), Maryland-Baltimore County (King 19)
2026 Preliminary Round: Prairie View 67 (Horne 25), Lehigh 55 (Alvey 23)

"Stepping onto a brand new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing." - Maya Angelou

Whether schools are simply filling out a roster with a backup or chasing a pot of gold at the end of a Larry Bird-created rainbow jumper, they seem to be looking around every corner and under every rock for a transfer. Bird left a potential powerhouse at Indiana but never played for the Hoosiers before becoming national player of the year with Indiana State. Bird became a three-time All-American in the late 1970s not long after a 12-season span from 1961-62 through 1972-73 when there was exactly zero A-As who previously played varsity basketball for another four-year university. These days, wining and dining transfers has become more critical than wooing prize high school prospects. Incredibly, the transfer portal led to 27 of the total of 50 All-Americans over past three seasons transferring from other schools - 16 different individuals via mid-major schools comparable to Indiana State (Colorado State/East Carolina/George Mason/Illinois State/Iona/Massachusetts/Morehead State/New Mexico/North Florida/Northern Colorado/Ohio University/Saint Mary's/South Dakota State/Tulsa/UAB/Wyoming).

How many All-Americans over the years actually played varsity basketball for two different four-year schools? The average was about one every two years until the transfer portal yielded at least five such A-As each of the last four campaigns. Duke and Kansas, two of the five schools with the most All-Americans in history, had their first transfer in that category during the previous decade - Duke guard Seth Curry (Liberty) and KU center Jeff Withey (Arizona). Of course, the premier player in this category in 2021-22 was Kentucky center Oscar Tshiebwe, who transferred from West Virginia after averaging 10.6 ppg and 8.9 rpg for the Mountaineers in 2019-20 and first semester of 2020-21. Tshiebwe became the first transfer ever to become national player of the year after competing in games with another four-year school. He was the first player to average more than 15 rpg since Alcorn State's Larry Smith in 1979-80 (15.1). UK lost five players who became A-As elsewhere including one of five such transfers at Gonzaga.

Mississippi State lost a transfer All-American when Ben Hansbrough departed for Notre Dame but the Bulldogs had their own player in this category earlier this century after Lawrence Roberts left Baylor. In an era when transfers have almost become an obsession for various reasons, there was a modest uptick in the ratio with seven All-Americans in this category in a six-year span from 2000 through 2005 before Louisville's Luke Hancock (George Mason) became Final Four Most Outstanding Player. The transfer All-Americans this year - including Jaden Bradley, Graham Ike, Joshua Jefferson, Yaxel Lendeborg and JT Toppin - joined the following alphabetical list of A-As who began their collegiate careers at another four-year school:

*Attended junior college between four-year school stints.
NOTES: Burgess was an Air Force veteran. . . . Clayton, Haggerty, Lanier, Luis, Tonje and Toppin increased the total to 27 of All-Americans who previously played for a mid-major or non-Division I school.

In a microwave atmosphere of instant expectations, please be aware three All-Americans this season failed to generate national headlines in their freshman campaigns by averaging fewer than 4 ppg - Michigan State's Jeremy Fears Jr. (3.5 ppg in 2023-24), Florida's Thomas Haugh (3.9 ppg in 2023-24) and Iowa State's Joshua Jefferson (2.2 ppg with Saint Mary's in 2022-23).

Iowa's Kris Murray (0.6 ppg in 2020-21), posting the lowest-ever freshman scoring average for an eventual All-American, isn't the only standout enduring growing pains early in college career. The following alphabetical list of players averaged fewer than three points per game as a freshman before eventually earning All-American acclaim:

Eventual All-American	Pos.	A-A School	Freshman Scoring Average
Cole Aldrich	C	Kansas	2.8 ppg in 2007-08
Lorenzo Charles	F	North Carolina State	2.2 ppg in 1981-82
Rakeem Christmas	F	Syracuse	2.8 ppg in 2011-12
Keith Edmonson	G	Purdue	1.3 ppg in 1978-79
Aaron Gray	C	Pittsburgh	1.7 ppg in 2003-04
Erick Green	G	Virginia Tech	2.6 ppg in 2009-10
Tom Gugliotta	F	North Carolina State	2.7 ppg in 1988-89
Rui Hachimura	F	Gonzaga	2.6 ppg in 2016-17
PJ Haggerty	G	Memphis	2.8 ppg in 2022-23 with TCU
Roy Hamilton	G	UCLA	1.2 ppg in 1975-76
Joshua Jefferson	F	Iowa State	2.2 ppg in 2022-23 with Saint Mary's
Jeff Jonas	G	Utah	2.8 ppg in 1973-74
Johnny Juzang	G	UCLA	2.9 ppg in 2019-20 with Kentucky
Frank Kaminsky	C-F	Wisconsin	1.8 ppg in 2011-12
Ted Kitchel	F	Indiana	1.7 ppg in 1979-80
Bob Kurland	C	Oklahoma A&M	2.5 ppg in 1942-43
Tom LaGarde	C	North Carolina	2.2 ppg in 1973-74
Jock Landale	C	Saint Mary's	2.1 ppg in 2014-15
Chaz Lanier	G	Tennessee	1.7 ppg in 2020-21 with North Florida
Kenyon Martin	C	Cincinnati	2.8 ppg in 1996-97
Luke Maye	F	North Carolina	1.2 ppg in 2015-16
Kris Murray	F	Iowa	0.6 ppg in 2020-21
John Pilch	G	Wyoming	2.4 ppg in 1946-47
Thomas Robinson	F	Kansas	2.5 ppg in 2009-10
Steve Scheffler	C	Purdue	1.5 ppg in 1986-87
Russ Smith	G	Louisville	2.2 ppg in 2010-11
Earl Tatum	G-F	Marquette	1.5 ppg in 1972-73
Kurt Thomas	F-C	Texas Christian	0.8 ppg in 1990-91
Al Thornton	F	Florida State	2.8 ppg in 2003-04
B.J. Tyler	G	Texas	2.9 ppg in 1989-90 with DePaul
Scottie Wilbekin	G	Florida	2.4 ppg in 2010-11
Jeff Withey	C	Kansas	1.3 ppg in 2009-10

NOTES: Oregon's Wally Borrevik (1.8 ppg in 1940-41), Wisconsin's Gene Englund (2.3 ppg in 1938-39), California's Darrall Imhoff (0.9 ppg in 1957-58), Kansas' Dean Kelley (0.8 in 1950-51), Purdue's Bob Kessler (2.3 ppg in 1933-34), Notre Dame's Leo Klier (2.7 in 1942-43), Oklahoma A&M's Gale McArthur (2.96 ppg in 1948-49), Notre Dame's Bob Rensberger (1.5 ppg in 1940-41) and Stanford's George Yardley (2.9 ppg in 1947-48) averaged fewer than three points per game as sophomores when freshmen weren't eligible to play varsity basketball before becoming All-Americans. . . . Withey originally attended Arizona.

NBA success in several years may reveal voter shortcomings as no non-power conference member supplied an NCAA consensus All-American this campaign. However, in excessive transfer era it should be noted that A-As Joshua Jefferson (Iowa State/previously attended Saint Mary's), Yaxel Lendeborg (Michigan/UAB) and JT Toppin (Texas Tech/New Mexico) previously attended mid-majors. Gonzaga's Graham Ike, a transfer from Wyoming, was a third-team selection by AP and NABC.

Gonzaga has a striking number of 11 different players accorded such consensus A-A status thus far this century. Five years ago, the Zags joined Illinois (2004-05) as the only two schools in a 73-season span to feature three consensus All-Americans in same season since Kentucky in 1948-49. Following is a chronological list of mid-level NCAA consensus first- and second-team All-Americans since the ACC was introduced in 1953-54:

NOTE: BYU, Creighton and Houston subsequently joined a power conference.

It doesn't take a genius to deduce All-American players are all-important to teams. Although a couple of them are sidelined by injuries, all 16 A-As this year are on teams participating in the 2026 NCAA playoffs. Since the national tourney expanded to at least 32 teams in 1975, only three consensus first-team All-Americans never appeared in the NCAA playoffs - Houston guard Otis Birdsong (1977), Minnesota center Mychal Thompson (1978) and LSU swingman Ben Simmons (2016) - until Dayton's Obi Toppin became standout #4 in this category due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Terry Dischinger averaged 28.3 ppg in his three-year varsity career with Purdue in the early 1960s, but he is the only two-time consensus first-team All-American since World War II never to compete in the NCAA Tournament or NIT. Dischinger also endured a star-scorned nine-year NBA career without playing on a squad winning a playoff series. He was named NBA Rookie of the Year as a member of the Chicago Zephyrs in 1962-63 despite playing in only 57 games as he skipped many of the road contests to continue his education. His dedication to the classroom paid off as he became an orthodontist.

Hall of Famer Billy Cunningham averaged 24.8 ppg in his three-year varsity career with North Carolina in the mid-1960s, but he also never appeared in the NCAA tourney or NIT. How good were the players in that era if Cunningham never was a consensus first-team All-American? Auburn's Charles Barkley (defeated by Richmond in 1984) and Florida State's Dave Cowens (East Tennessee State in 1968) were All-Americans but each lost his only NCAA playoff game against a mid-major opponent. Following is a look at Dischinger and three other multiple-year NCAA consensus first-team All-Americans since the mid-1950s never to participate in the NCAA Tournament:

No multiple-season All-American failed to appear in national postseason competition since the NCAA tourney expanded to at least 40 entrants in the late 1970s. The last one shunned in postseason was Centenary's Robert Parish in the mid-1970s. Notre Dame guard Kevin O'Shea is the only four-time A-A never to appear in the NCAA playoffs and National Invitation Tournament. While not an NCAA consensus first-team selection multiple times like Dischinger, following is an alphabetical list including O'Shea and six additional three-time All-Americans never participating in a "Big Dance" (NCAA playoffs and NIT):

NOTE: NCAA playoff field ranged from 22 to 25 entrants during 16-year span from 1955 through 1970.

You can't escape the distinguished DNA. Carlos Boozer, the second-leading rebounder and third-leading scorer for Duke's 2001 NCAA champion, averaged 12.7 ppg and 7.5 rpg while playing in 10 playoff games from 2000 through 2002 (8-2 record; missed first two games in 2001 because of an injury). If his twins (Cameron and cayden) help propel the Blue Devils to this year's Final Four, the Boozer clan will become the seventh father-son combination in NCAA history to win at least 12 tourney games.

Kentucky's Reed Sheppard, perhaps the nation's premier freshman two years ago, is the son of former Wildcats star Jeff Sheppard, the Final Four Most Outstanding Player in 1998. If Reed had shepherded UK to a national title, they would have become the winningest father-son combination at same school in NCAA playoff history. Alas, Reed incurred growing pains and made only one field goal in upset loss to Oakland. Jeff averaged 9.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg and 2.6 apg in 17 NCAA Tournament games from 1994 through 1998 (16-1 record; did not play in one game in 1994). If the Wildcats had reached the national semifinals last year, they would have become the third father-son tandem to crack the 20-win plateau, joining UCLA's Marques/Kris Johnson and Georgetown's Patrick Sr./Patrick Jr. Ewing.

A majority of the fathers averaged more points per game in NCAA playoff competition than their sons in this family category. Princeton is the only mid-major school with a father-son combination collecting total of more than four NCAA playoff triumphs (father Ed Hummer 6/son Ian Hummer 0). BYU also had a couple of additional duos (Craigs and Christensens) among the following father-son combos playing for same school in NCAA tourney (listed by number of family victories):