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This school is coached by a man who played for Rick Pitino at Providence and got his first basketball coaching job with Pitino at the University of Kentucky This school in Ohio is named after the same patron saint as a fine high school in Louisville who play basketball in the Kentucky Region 7. John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry took place in the state this school represents. This is the only university in the tournament that is located in our nation’s capital. This school from the Atlantic Coast Conference is one of two in the tournament from this peninsular state. It is located in the state capital. Home to the Ozark Mountains, this school represents the state that President Harry Truman called home—the Show Me State. These badgers represent the Dairy State. This home of the Owls is located in the “City of Brotherly Love.” This school represents the city in which Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Before Alaska entered the union, this state was the largest in size and was once part of Mexico. Representing the state named for Charles IX of France, and Charles I & II of England, this school is always a winner. It was explored by Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake. This is a private university founded by a steamboat entrepreneur who was a Commodore and is located in the “Music City”. This school has the largest enrollment of any in our nation. It is located in the state capital and the team is a little nuts! This is one of 2 Big Ten schools representing this state. It is the larger of the two schools hailing from a state that on a map looks like a dog barking at a large glove. This school represents a city that was founded the same year as the Erie Canal was completed. They are both in the same state. The city was named for a city in Greece. Do Greeks like orange? This school represents the “Queen City” which is located on the north banks of the Ohio River. The city was the birthplace of President William Howard Taft. This school is located in the same city as the famous Biltmore Estate that was the home to the Vanderbilt family. This school located in the heartland of Indiana was founded for engineers. This school represents “the Nutmeg State,” and has a very good women’s basketball team. They have had a disappointing basketball season after winning the NCAA in 2011. This school is located in the heart of Bluegrass Country in the horse breeding section of the state. This school boasts excellent women’s and men’s basketball teams and is an archrival to the University of Kentucky and this is another orange school. This school was the oldest municipal university (owned by the city) until it joined the state university system in 1970, and is named for France’s Louis XVI. One of two powerful basketball teams in its state. The school bears the name of the founder, a tobacco industrialist. Do you think this team is gambling on winning the tournament? This team is located in eastern Washington State and was named for a Jesuit Saint. This school represents the MAC Conference and is located in a town that has the same name as the financial, political and industrial capital of Greece. This is the third school from Kentucky to be in the tournament. Could this school possibly be the “Cinderella team”? Does this team think that they are the San Francisco NFL team? They share the same name and hail from the same state. Greyhounds are a rescued breed of dog after their racing career has ended. These Greyhounds are from the “Free State” or “The Old Line State,” named for Queen Mary. They are the Engineers, not the Musketeers, or the Mountaineers. The school they represent , in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was founded to educate engineers. This team isn’t the University of Kentucky Wildcats, but another wildcat team from North Carolina. The school was named after a Brigadier General in the Revolutionary War. These Buffaloes come from the state with the highest altitude in the nation. This team is ready for St. Patrick’s Day. What Catholic private college located 20 miles from Manhattan in New York City team is named the Gaels and have the Killian as a mascot? This team thinks that they are in the NFL, also, but they are not from St. Louis. They represent the Mountain West Conference and they hail from the city of Fort Collins. This team is the Jackrabbits. Their state has the national landmark Mount Rushmore and the Badlands. Located in Waco, Texas, the site of the Branch Dividian massacre, this school’s women’s team is the top seed in the women’s brackets. This school is a private Baptist university. Coming from the auto industry capital of the US, this team hopes to drive the ball in. This team dresses in crimson and represents the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. 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