Final Four: Test your trivia knowledge

Only time teams from the same state have met in the final

1961 and 1962, when Cincinnati defeated Ohio State each year (the Buckeyes are the only team to ever lose back-to-back finals)

Teams that have won the most championships

1. UCLA, 11
2. Kentucky, 7
3. Indiana, 5
4. North Carolina, 5
5. Duke, 3
6. Kansas, 3

Teams that have lost the most finals

1. Duke, 6
2. Kansas, 5
3. North Carolina, 4
4. Michigan, 4

Times the two winningest programs ever have met in the final

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Kentucky and North Carolina have the most wins in NCAA history. But the closest they came to facing off for a championship was in 1998, when both made the Final Four, but North Carolina lost to Utah in the semifinals.

First Final Four played in a domed stadium

1971 at the Houston Astrodome

Last time the Final Four was not played in a dome

1996, at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J.

Stadium seating capacity currently required to host the Final Four

70,000

Future Final Four sites

• 2011 – Houston, Reliant Stadium
• 2012 – New Orleans, Superdome
• 2013 – Atlanta, Georgia Dome
• 2014 – Dallas, Cowboys Stadium

Coaches with most NCAA championship teams

1. John Wooden, UCLA – 10
2. Adolph Rupp, Kentucky – 4
3. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke – 3
4. Bob Knight, Indiana – 3

Perfect-record championship teams

1. 1956, San Francisco (29-0)
2. 1957, North Carolina (32-0)
3. 1964, UCLA (30-0)
4. 1967, UCLA (30-0)
5. 1972, UCLA (30-0)
6. 1973, UCLA (30-0)
7. 1976, Indiana (32-0)

NCAA champions with the lowest overall winning percentage

1. Kansas (1988) – .711
2. Villanova (1985) – .714
3. North Carolina State (1983) – .722

First time the championship game was televised

1954, when La Salle beat Bradley in Kansas City, Mo.

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