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WEDNESDAY’S QUICKIE QUIZ
>>> In 2018, Loyola Chicago became the fourth No. 11 seed to reach the Final Four . . . Which three schools had done it previously?
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WEDNESDAY’S SINGLE DIGITS
>>> Fran Dunphy, who was 1-8 in NCAA Tournament games at Penn, was 2-9 in them at Temple . . . In his last five NCAA Tournament losses with the Owls, they led in the second half of four of them and the other went to overtime.
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>>> Dunphy’s NCAA Tournament winning percentage of .150 (3-17) is by far the lowest among any coaches with 20 or more games . . . Next lowest is .429 (12-16) by Missouri’s Norm Stewart.
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>>> On the same day that Dunphy coached his last game at Temple, Phil Martelli is let go as head coach at Saint Joseph’s and La Salle’s Lionel Simmons is passed for third on the NCAA Division I Career Scoring List . . . All those were just one day after Philadelphia native Wilt Chamberlain was dropped from sixth to seventh on the NBA’s All-Time Scoring List.
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>>> Villanova’s Jalen Brunson scored 34 points for the Mavericks last week against the Spurs, the most for a Wildcats rookie in the NBA since Kerry Kittles went for 40 on April 13, 1997 in a Nets game at Milwaukee . . . Those are the only two instances we could find of a Villanova rookie scoring 34 or more points in an NBA game.
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QUICKIE QUIZ ANSWER
>>> LSU (1986), George Mason (2006) and VCU (2011) join Loyola Chicago (2018) as No. 11 seeds to reach the Final Four.