Great sporcle quiz: Every city to host men's NCAA Tournament games

[Mizzougrad96]

This is a really tough one...

http://www.sporcle.com/games/purplebackpack89/tourneycities

 

[Football_Bat]

In the place I'm thinking of, Syracuse met its Waterloo twice and North Carolina once.

 

[ucacm]

There's only one town on the list that I think no one should get.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I got 96. Did all the major cities, and then just started listing every college town I could think. It helped that they were in alphabetical order.

 

[Cosmo]

I got 110. Pissed at some of the ones I missed. Starting overthinking.

ucacm ... agreed. If anyone gets that one, I call bull****.

 

[playthrough]

There's only one town on the list that I think no one should get.

Yep, I can honestly say I've never heard of that city.

 

[printdust]

81. Went blank on Ames, Evansville, Chapel Hill and thought I'd typed Chicago but misspelled it. Damn.

 

[mpcincal]

I took it a couple days ago, I think I missed about 10. I know exactly which city you're talking about that no one should get.

Good call on the strategy, snake. I was dumb enough to just go one at a time, going by the state and the alphabetical nature of the list.

 

[apeman33]

I couldn't spell (where Cal is located) correctly and I blanked on, of all places, Indianapolis. I got 102. And there's one place that I can not believe there were ever NCAA tourney games ever held. I don't even know if there's a D-I school there.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Only got 67.

 

[Gutter]

Surprised I got 96. There are a couple on there not even the most knowledgeable of tournament buffs should ever get.

 

[buckweaver]

106. And I know exactly the city everyone's talking about. I've never even heard of it.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Had to Google it. According to wiki, it is also home to the annual Fried Onion Burger Day Festival. It's also 25 miles from a pretty major city, which leads me to believe the major city actually hosted the tournament, but the games were played there.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

I got 110. Pissed at some of the ones I missed. Starting overthinking.

ucacm ... agreed. If anyone gets that one, I call bull****.

The one that 1.7 percent of the people got?

Never heard of that one either. Wonder if it was the "official" host, but every media outlet called it by the bigger city next to it?


I got 80.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I broke 100, but I was stunned at how many I missed.

 

[cougargirl]

101 - and spelled Murfreesboro wrong, but also guessed Daly City, Landover and Arlington.

Know exactly which one you're talking about that you'd never guess.

Sporcle is like a drug. I can't go a day without it, and I'm so occupied by it that it keeps me from eating.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Got 109 and I'm kicking myself for a few I didn't get.

BTW, where the **** is El Reno, Oklahoma and why did it get to host a tournament round?

 

[Steak Snabler]

Got 109 and I'm kicking myself for a few I didn't get.

BTW, where the **** is El Reno, Oklahoma and why did it get to host a tournament round?

96. Jenks Simmons Fieldhouse, El Reno, 1954: Built as Thunderbird Coliseum, hosted Bradley’s 1955 NCAA Tournament victory over OCU and since is home to El Reno’s wrestling frenzy.

http://centennial.newsok.com/topvenues#ixzz1H5sx7bdV

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Anybody who got El Reno is either over 60, from Oklahoma, a NCAA hoops historian, or more likely, cheated.

 

[Scouter]

Got 109 and I'm kicking myself for a few I didn't get.

BTW, where the **** is El Reno, Oklahoma and why did it get to host a tournament round?

96. Jenks Simmons Fieldhouse, El Reno, 1954: Built as Thunderbird Coliseum, hosted Bradley’s 1955 NCAA Tournament victory over OCU and since is home to El Reno’s wrestling frenzy.

http://centennial.newsok.com/topvenues#ixzz1H5sx7bdV

Damn. My alma mater won an NCAA tourney game there and I'd never heard of it.