FRIDAY’S QUICKIE QUIZ
>>> Who was the last Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four to win the award despite his team not winning the National Championship that season?
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FRIDAY’S SINGLE DIGITS
>>> Through five games, the Phillies have outscored their opponents 8-0 in the fourth inning and 19-3 over the middle three innings.
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>>> Congrats to Joel Embiid on the second triple-double of his career in Thursday’s loss to the Bucks, but we would have like to have seen more than one rebound in the 10:35 he played in the fourth quarter. Of course, the Bucks shot 15-for-21 in that period, so there weren’t many boards to be had. Milwaukee had a 12-3 rebounding advantage in that quarter and 27-14 in the second half.
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>>> The Flyers have allowed first-period goals in nine consecutive games, getting outscored 17-5 over the initial 20 minutes over that time. They are 2-7 in those games.
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>>> As the Flyers stumble into the offseason, we thought we’d leave you with these numbers:
7 -- Regular seasons completed since the Flyers last advanced past the first round of the playoffs.
7 -- Regular seasons completed from origin before the Flyers won their first Staney Cup.
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QUICKIE QUIZ ANSWER
>>> Hakeen Olajuwon (1983) was the last Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four to win the award despite his Houston Cougars not winning the National Championship. The complete list of such players:
1953: B.H. Born, Kansas (lost title game)
1956: Hal Lear, Temple (won third-place game)
1957: Wilt Chamberlain, Kansas (lost title game)
1958: Elgin Baylor, Seattle (lost title game)
1959: Jerry West, West Virginia (lost title game)
1961: Jerry Lucas, Ohio State (lost title game)
1963: Art Heyman, Duke (won third-place game)
1965: Bill Bradley, Princeton (won third-place game)
1966: Jerry Chambers, Utah (lost third-place game)
1971: Howard Porter, Villanova (lost title game)
1983: Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston (lost title game)