Take that game program out of your checked bag
UCONN-PURDUE COMPARISON
Connecticut and Purdue will clash in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament championship game on Monday night at State Farm Stadium.
UConn, the No. 1 overall seed and reigning national champions, it looking for its sixth national title and second in as many years. Fellow No. 1 seed Purdue seeks the first men’s basketball championship in school history.
The matchup promises to be an epic Fans at the NCAA men’s basketball battle of big men, with UConn’s Donovan Final Four in Glendale, Arizona, have Clingan (7-foot-2, 280 pounds) been advised to not fly home with facing Purdue’s Zach Edey (7-4, 300), game programs placed in their the two-time national college player checked baggage. of the year.
The NCAA posted a While the championship will be decided notice at State Farm on the court, The Arizona Republic’s Stadium during Saturday’s in-depth review of the schools semifinals with and their history lends a decided advantage the following message: to the group from West Lafayette,
“Please Note: If you Indiana. have an Official NCAA Consider …
Men’s Final Four Game
Program and are flying, TSA advises that you place your game program in Purdue: Boilermakers, which are Victorian-era your carry-on baggage. DO NOT place locomotives; UConn: Huskies, game programs in your checked baggage. the dog breed. That replaced an The TSA has determined that the earlier nickname, Aggies. The current thickness and type of glossy paper mascot is named Jonathan after Jonathan that is used creates a bulk mass that Trumbull, Connecticut’s Revolutionary has to be hand inspected in most cases War-era governor. EDGE: Purdue and will cause potential delays to the security screening process.”
The same advisory also was posted on the NCAA website’s “Before you go” Purdue: 1869; UConn: 1881. EDGE: section. Purdue
A similar warning has been in place at recent Super Bowls. The issue stems from a new CT screening technology. Purdue: John Purdue, a wealthy American
Nicknames
Schools established
School’s founders
industrialist in Lafayette, Indiana who donated the land where the university would be located; UConn: Charles and Augustus Storrs, brothers who donated land and money to start an agricultural school that would one day become a state university. EDGE: UConn, because two heads are better than one.
Average cost of tuition
(per U.S. News & World Report)
Purdue: $9,992 per year in-state, $28,794 out-of-state; UConn: $20,366/ $43,034. EDGE: Purdue Undergraduate students on campus
Purdue: 39,000; UConn: 19,000. EDGE: Purdue
Total alumni
Purdue: 600,000; UConn: 255,000. EDGE: Purdue
Famous alumni
Purdue: Neil Armstrong, John Wooden, Orville Redenbacher, Drew Brees; UConn: Meg Ryan, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Rebecca Lobo, Ray Allen, Bobby Moynihan. EDGE: Purdue
Famous innovation
Purdue: Robert C. Baker, the chicken nugget; UConn: David Lee, who shared 1996 Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of superfluidity in helium-3. EDGE: Purdue
Famous educator
Purdue: Amelia Earhart served as a “Counselor on Careers for Women” in 1935 until her disappearance in 1937; UConn: James C. Kaufman, psychology professor who has published more than 50 books and 300 papers, including study that spawned the “Sylvia Plath Effect.” EDGE: Purdue
Famous first
Purdue: Home to the first universityowned airport in the United States and Indiana’s only nuclear reactor; UConn: The first school to win NCAA men’s and women’s basketball titles in the same season, in 2004 and again in 2014. Edge: UConn
Rivalry trophy
Purdue: Old Oaken Bucket, Indiana vs. Purdue football, dates to 1891; UConn: Ramnapping Trophy, UConn vs. Rhode Island football, 1936 to 1999. Edge: Purdue
Home court
Purdue: Mackey Arena, 14,876 capacity; UConn: Gampel Pavilion, 10,300 capacity.
Edge: Purdue
NCAA championships
Purdue: Three: men’s golf (1961), women’s basketball (1999), women’s golf (2010); UConn: 23: Women’s basketball 11 (1995, 2000, ‘02, ‘03, ‘04, ‘09, ‘10, ‘13, ‘14, ‘15, ‘16); men’s basketball 5 (1999, 2004, ‘11, ‘14, ‘23); field hockey 5 (1981, ‘85, 2013, ‘14, ‘17); men’s soccer 2 (1981, 2000). Edge: UConn
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