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COLLEGE HOOPS TOURNAMENT: For The Record

ACROSS 1 Yr. starter 4 “Section 2”

alternative 9 Austin Carr’s record 25 field goals in a single NCAA championship game, e.g. 13 False front 19 Foreman fighter 20 Spitting nails 21 State firmly 22 Of equal standing 23 Coach with the most men’s tournament wins (94) 26 Soda since 1905 27 The Wildcats beat them to win the 1998 championship 28 Poland’s basic

monetary unit 29 Franklin of soul 31 Play near the basket along the side of the key 34 Player with the most points in a women’s Final Four game (47) 39 Coach who led Kentucky to championships in 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1958 42 “... __ quit!”

(ultimatum) 43 Blue Jays’ home,

on scoreboards 44 Feel crummy 45 Team with the most men’s tournament championships (11) 50 Earth goddess 53 __ Loa 55 Coach Bill who led the 132-Across to the championship in 2008 56 Brand in the

freezer aisle 57 Player with the most points in a Final Four game (58) 59 “I’m on __!” 61 Lazed about 63 Ambient composer

Brian 64 “Queen __” (pop singer’s nickname) 65 Pack-toting beast 68 Ball __ (hoopster who doesn’t pass a lot) 69 Member sch. of an NCAA conference, e.g. 71 Jessica of

“Hitchcock” 75 Nickname of the team with the most women’s tournament appearances (37) 78 Louvre Pyramid

architect 80 Coach with the most tournament championships (11) 82 “Frozen” queen 83 __ finger (big pointer at many a hoops game) 85 “__ see it ...” 87 Near-eternity 88 __ ball (hoopster’s

embarrassment) 89 Run after Q 91 Steals from 94 Actor Taye 96 School with most women’s tournament championships (11) 100 Without, to Luc 103 Nothing but 104 Tibet’s capital 105 “Pronto” 106 Coach with the most men’s tournament championships (10) 108 “Gimme __!” (cheer starter for the NCAA’s Cyclones) 109 Old jet, for short 111 Prez with Mamie 113 Smith who’s tied with 23-Across for the most consecutive tournament appearances (23) 114 School with the most Final Four appearances (20) 119 School whose Lady Bears won the NCAA championship in 2005 and 2012 124 Casino chain founder 125 NBA great who once played for the LSU Tigers 128 Zebra feature 129 Christians’ __ Creed 132 Team with the longest streak of men’s consecutive tournament appearances (29) 136 “__ Fideles” 137 Power forward Meek who was on Duke’s 1992 championshipwinning team 138 “Them” novelist 139 Hanger in a basketball court 140 One of Henry VIII’s Annes 141 University of Rhode Island’s hoops team 142 “Dead-tree” 143 Part of iOS: Abbr. DOWN 1 Get clogged 2 Co-worker of Kagan and Kavanaugh 3 Footwear for many

a hoops player 4 Commercial ending

for Water 5 Part of ETA: Abbr. 6 Tease playfully 7 “Ciao for now,” in

a text 8 Jeff of Amazon.com 9 Finn’s friend 10 Many NCAA games are seen on them 11 Just swell 12 Spin 13 Seating a couple 14 Filmdom’s Ron Burgundy, for one 15 Chocolate-yielding

tree 16 GI’s address 17 Basketball’s Mavericks, on scoreboards 18 One-and-done __ (period in basketball that began in 2006) 24 NYC hrs. 25 Moral

climate 30 Abbr. on a

cornerstone 32 Inner city,

informally 33 Lily-white 35 Lacking leniency 36 Hoopster Arizin whose jersey #11 was retired by Villanova 37 Berlin article 38 Make laugh really

hard 40 Wrinkly dog 41 Grunting ones 45 Functional 46 Total or Life 47 Big London

insurer 48 CIO’s partner 49 Joakim who was named the most outstanding player of the 2006 Final Four 51 “For __ know ...” 52 __ Delle Donne (WNBA great who once played for the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens) 54 Baked brick 57 It includes the 1977 championshipwinning Golden Eagles and the 1984 championshipwinning Hoyas 58 Trendy again 60 Loo 62 One-up 66 What “center”

starts with 67 __ -mo replay 70 Bird who finished her career at 96-Across ranked first in three-point field goal percentage 72 Represented visually, as by scanning 73 Many an asylumseeker 74 Perfect-game

pitcher Don 76 Tall tales 77 Raipur wraps 79 One-on-one offense, in hoops slang 81 State that’s home to the NCAA’s Sycamores, who played in the 2011 tournament: Abbr. 84 Mineral in sheets 86 In that case 90 Sailor’s song 92 It may be dilated 93 Longtime Saudi

Arabian king 95 “If u ask me ...” 96 Large family 97 “How awful!” 98 Hair remover

brand 99 Turkic people 101 LA-to-IL dir. 102 Stick in a medicine cabinet 106 A Bush twin 107 __ whim 110 Hoops tactic also called a pick 112 Stands in a mall 115 __ days (now) 116 Leaf gatherer 117 Butler’s love 118 Fabulous writer? 120 Singer Sumac 121 Moles may destroy them 122 In tune 123 Sits on the sidelines, say 126 Open a crack 127 Notes after sol 129 Throw cuffs on 130 Altar answer 131 Toon pic 133 Strategy game with matchsticks 134 Kyoto cash 135 U.S. electee of ’48