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Page two/Carolina -Joiumal/November 2V, 1978 The ultimate UNCC basketball trivia quiz By Dave Taylor What’s the matter, bunkie? The prospect of going home for the holidays got you in a blue funk? You say you told your mom and dad and all your friends back home that you would be starting for the 49ers this season. And now that the press guides are out and your name isn’t even listed you know you’re going to have to face the music. Well, CHEER UP, contest rules 1. The contest is open only to UNCC students. 2. The winner will be determined by the most number of correct answers. 3. In the case of a tie, a drawing will be held to determine the winner. 4. Student employees of the athletic depart ment and the Carolina Journal are NOT eligi ble. 5. To enter, simply number a sheet of paper from 1 to 75 and list your answers to corres pond with the questions. 6. Bring your entry forms by the athletic department during nor ¬ grand prize Are you ready for this, bunkie? The winner will receive ... 1. Two side parquet tickets for each of the re maining coliseum games. 2. The first two stu dent tickets for the Davidson game. 3. You will be given first option to purchase two tickets in the stu dent section for any postseason tournaments in which the 49ers might appear this year (i.e., NCAA or NIT). That op tion will be valid regardless of how many rounds we might ad vance. 4. An official 49er press guide. THE Quiz 1. Name our newly ap pointed athletic director. 2. Name our newly ap pointed men’s head basketball coach. 3. Name each coach BUNKIE! Here’s a chance for you to redeem your family’s good name! Here’s a chance to have your name whispered with reverence among trivia experts! We have listed below 75 questions to test your mettle as an expert on 49er basket- ball history. Follow the simple instructions and you may, yet, be able to go home for the holidays with your head held high. mal working hours. Mark it to the attention of Dave Taylor. You may mail your entry forms to the department to my attention. 7. The athletic depart ment, and more par ticularly the sports in formation office, are strictly off limits as a source of information. You're on your own, bunkie! 8. Entry forms must be turned in not later than 5 p.m., Dec. 8. 9. Make sure your answers are legible! If we can’t read it, we can’t count it. 5. An official Sun Belt Conference press guide. 6. A women's athletics brochure. 7. We will add your name to the sports infor mation office mailing list for the remainder of the year. 8. And finally, the Carolina Journal has graciously consented to run your picture in the issue in which we an nounce the winner and divulge all of the correct answers. I hope you have as much fun trying to figure this thing out as I did putting it together. And, bunkie, enjoy the holiday season. who has been at the helm of a UNCC basket- ball team. 4. Name the only two players in 49er history to have their jerseys retired and what were their jersey numbers. 5. Name the all-time leading scorer, the only 49er to score over 2,000 points in his career. 6. Whose career re bounding record did Cedric Maxwell break? 7. Name at least three of the five starters off of Bill Foster’s first UNCC team. 8. Name at least four of the top six career scorers (all of whom have or had at least 1,000 career points). 9. Who is our career assist leader? 10. Who holds the top career scoring average record? 11. Who holds the single season scoring average record? 12. Who was the first player signed to a basketball scholarship? 13. Who holds the record for consecutive games played? 14. In 1976, Cedric Maxwell broke a 17-year NIT record. What was that record? 15. Who was nicknam ed “Bionic"? 16. Who was UNCC’s first All-American? 17. Who was the first player to score 1,000 career points. 18. What is the most number of points ever scored by a UNCC team? a. 117 b. 124 c. 131 19. Lee Rose coached UNCC to how many wins? a. 68 b. 74 c. 72 20. Bill Foster coached UNCC to how many wins? a. 88 b. 90 c. 85 21. Who did Bill Foster succeed as UNCC coach? 22. Last season's won- lost record was 23. Name the 49er who holds the single season scoring record? 24. Who holds the career free throw percen tage record? 25. Who holds the single season reboun ding record? 26. Name the other six Sun Belt Conference members. 27. Name the Sun Belt commissioner. 28. Before UNCC adopted the 49er as the mascot, what the school’s nickname? 29. What connection does WAYS radio play- by-play announcer John Kilgo have with our basketball heritage? (Other than play-by-play announcer.) 30. Who tagged the gymnasium with the nickname of “Mine Shaft”? 31. With which school does UNCC have its longest standing rivalry? 32. Name the 49ers starting five for the 1976 NIT finals. 33. Name the 49ers starting five for the 1977 NCAA semifinals. 34. The 49ers played an exhibition schedule in two foreign countries last fall. Name those two countries. 35. Who led last year’s team in blocked shots? 36. In 1974-75, UNCC defeated St. Leo, 118-51. What is UNCC’s series record with the small Florida school? a. 3-0 b. 2-1 c. 1-2 37. In the first round of the 1976 NIT against San Francisco, which 49er hit a shot at the buzzer to put the game into overtime? 38. How many con secutive 20-win seasons have the 49ers had? 39. Who were the “M & M Boys”? 40. Who was last year’s Sun Belt Con ference player of the year? 41. UNCC and one other Sun Belt Con ference school have ap peared in both the NCAA playoffs and the NIT. Name the other school. 42. Who was the first nationally ranked team defeated by the 49ers? 43. Which team, last season, broke UNCC’s home court winning streak? 44. Four UNCC players have been drafted by the pros. Name them. 45. Who was John Kilgo’s “color analyst” during the 1975-76 season? 46. Prior to joining the NCAA, UNCC belonged to the NAIA as a member of what con ference? 47. In the conference referred to in No. 46, how many league titles did UNCC win? 48. A book was penned after the 1976-77 season detailing the 49ers Remember hew Massey's /amoas jump shot. It set many records for him. meteoric rise to national prominence. It was en titled Gold Rush. Who was its author? 49. Who came up with UNCC’s unofficial nickname of “Mean Green”? 50. When (in what year) was UNCC’s first postseason champion ship tournament ap pearance? 51. What local televi sion station will be car rying the recently an nounced Sun Belt Con ference game of the week? 52. A member of the current athletic depart ment staff is a former basketball assistant coach. Name him. (No, I’m not talking about Coach Pratt.) 53. Who was the oppo nent in UNCC’s first ever televised game? 54. In what year was that first televised game? 55. The Sun Belt Con ference champion, begin ning this season, receives an automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs. In which region will the Sun Belt compete? 56. What do the Privateers, the Brahmans, the Blazers, the Panthers, the Dolphins and the Jaguars all have in com mon? 57. Coach Pratt played his college ball at which university? 58. For which pro team did he play? 59. Name Pratt’s two fulltime assistant coaches. 60. Who competed in the first official Sun Belt Conference regular season game? 61. Who was the last team to defeat the 49ers in the Mine Shaft? 62. Name the Char lotte Observer reporter who begins his seventh year on the 49er beat. 63. What do Lewis Middleton, Mike Stikeleather and Gary Bartley have in com mon? 64. What do the following teams have in common: Asheville- Biltmore (UNC-A), Augusta, Belmont Ab bey, Berry, Bridge- water, King, Pembroke, Piedmont, Sewanee and Shephard? Women's Basketball 65. Name the women’s varsity basketball coach? 66. The women’s basketball program is in its year. 67. The all-time women’s career scoring leader is _. 68. The all-time women’s career reboun ding leader is _. 69. Last the women posted wins and losses. 70. With what na tional organization are the women’s teams af filiated? 71. In what division does the women’s basketball team com pete? 72. Who was the first woman player signed to a basketball scholar ship? 73. Who is “The Pearl”? 74. How many times this season will the women's team appear in a doubleheader with the men’s team? 75. How many star' ters return from last year’s team?
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