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Exploring the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

This quiz tests your knowledge about the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), its history, leadership, and its role in collegiate athletics.

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1 Where are the headquarters of National Collegiate Athletic Association?

2 The ________ equivalent to NCAA is the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS).

3 Who of the following is/was the leader of National Collegiate Athletic Association?

4 When was National Collegiate Athletic Association formed?

5 What region does National Collegiate Athletic Association serve?

6 Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the men's and women's basketball Final Fours to the men's ________ (baseball).

7 The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and ________.

8 Further the 50,000-seat ________ far eclipsed the 17,000-seat Kemper.

9 What was the size of the National Collegiate Athletic Association?

10 What is National Collegiate Athletic Association's current status?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 2006 Boise State University football team returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football.
  • the 1999 Michigan Wolverines football team, featuring 2007 NFL MVP and Athlete of the Year Tom Brady, holds the all-time NCAA single-season attendance record.
  • the 1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team was never sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for using ineligible players although the Big Eight Conference vacated three wins.
  • the 2006 Insight Bowl featured the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A football bowl history.
  • the Walter Byers Scholarship is considered the highest academic honor for National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes.
  • when NCAA Division I basketball head coach John Beilein's son was a high school recruit, Beilein was restricted by NCAA rules from talking to him at a basketball camp.
  • the record for the longest hitting streak in NCAA college baseball history is 60 games, held by Damian Costantino of Salve Regina University.
  • in 2005, Appalachian State, led by quarterback Richie Williams, became the first college or university in North Carolina to win an NCAA national championship in football.
  • former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God.
  • College Sports Information Directors of America has conferred Academic All-American to athletes in all National Collegiate Athletic Association championship sports since 1952.
  • basketball player Mike Gansey is the only men's player in NCAA Division I shorter than 6 ft. 5 in. to figure in USA's top 50 in field-goal percentage for the 2005-06 season.
  • 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach.
  • Devin Britton won the 2009 NCAA Men's Tennis singles national championship as a freshman and is the only University of Mississippi tennis player to win the championship.
  • before coaching gymnastics at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1983, Newt Loken was the NCAA all-around gymnastics champion in 1942.
  • college lacrosse coach Bud Beardmore led Maryland to the 1975 NCAA tournament championship, despite the fact that the team lost two of its six NCAA games and almost failed to qualify.
  • before the NCAA began sponsoring a women's collegiate basketball tournament in 1982, the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981.
  • 1941 NCAA backstroke champion and University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor inductee Francis Heydt later owned a business that sold camouflage clothing to the U.S. military.
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