trivia

Trivia

College Basketball Trivia

1) Answer: University of Florida's Neal Walk led the NCAA in rebounds in 1968 with an average of 19.8 (494 rebounds in 25 games). Rutgers University's Steve Kaplan led the NCAA in free throw percentage in 1969-70 at a 92.7% rate (102-110). Rob Weingard led Division 1 in assists/game in 1985 for Hofstra with 228 in 24 games, an average of 9.5 per game.

2) Answer: Nat Holman (CCNY, 1950), Harry Litwack (1969, Temple), Eddie Fogler (1990, Vanderbilt), and Ben Braun (California, 1999).

3) Answer: Nat Holman (CCNY, 1950) and Larry Brown (1988, Kansas). Incidentally, the 1950 CCNY club is the only club in history to double in both the NIT and NCAA titles in the same season.

4) Answer: Nadav Henefeld, who picked off 138 steals during the 1989-90 season for the University of Connecticut.

5) Answer: Mickey Berkowitz (UNLV, 1975-76 season)

6) Answer: Mitch Kasoff, who played four seasons for the Terps (1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, and 1989-90); Limor Mizrachi, who played the 1991-92 season for the Terps. Clemson had two Jewish walk-ons: PG Jeremy Shyatt in the 1999-2000 season and Geoff Shyatt in the 2002-03 season. Shay Doron started her career for Maryland in 2003-04.

7) Answer: Art Heyman, Duke University: 1960-61 (3rd Team), 1961-62 (2nd Team), 1962-63 (1st Team); Barry Kramer, New York University: 1962-63 (1st Team); Neal Walk, University of Florida: 1967-68 (2nd team), 1968-69 (3rd Team); Ernie Grunfeld, University of Tennessee: 1976-77 (2nd Team)

8) Answer: Lennie Rosenbluth, University of North Carolina (1954-55, 1955-56, and 1956-57); Art Heyman, Duke University (1960-61, 1961-62, and 1962-63). Both Rosenbluth and Heyman happened to be named ACC Player of the Year for 1956-57 and 1962-63 seasons respectively.

9) Answer: Orly Grossman, University of Connecticut (1990-91 season).

10) Answer: Harry Litwack, Temple University (during the 1937-38 season while he was an assistant coach).

11) Answer: Jack Hirsch on UCLA's first NCAA championship team. (1964)

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