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NCAA basketball champions

Order by the year the title game was won. Place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

NCAA basketball champions
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release years and dates
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How NCAA basketball champions is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 44 cards you could be dealt, plus 16 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Michigan State over Indiana State Magic Johnson beats Larry Bird
  • North Carolina over Georgetown Michael Jordan game-winner; Dean Smith
  • Georgetown over Houston Patrick Ewing; John Thompson
  • Villanova over Georgetown Rollie Massimino's near-perfect game
  • Indiana over Syracuse Keith Smart's corner jumper; Bob Knight
  • Kansas over Oklahoma Danny Manning; Larry Brown
  • UNLV over Duke Larry Johnson; Jerry Tarkanian rout
  • Duke over Michigan Laettner over the Fab Five
  • North Carolina over Michigan Chris Webber's timeout; Dean Smith
  • UCLA over Arkansas Ed O'Bannon; Jim Harrick
  • Kentucky over Syracuse Tony Delk; Rick Pitino
  • Kentucky over Utah Tubby Smith's comeback
  • Connecticut over Duke Richard Hamilton; Jim Calhoun
  • Duke over Arizona Shane Battier; Mike Krzyzewski
  • Syracuse over Kansas Carmelo Anthony; Jim Boeheim
  • Connecticut over Georgia Tech Emeka Okafor; Jim Calhoun
  • Florida over UCLA Joakim Noah; Billy Donovan
  • Florida over Ohio State Al Horford; back-to-back Gators
  • North Carolina over Michigan State Tyler Hansbrough; Roy Williams
  • Duke over Butler Gordon Hayward's half-court miss
  • Kentucky over Kansas Anthony Davis; John Calipari
  • Connecticut over Kentucky Shabazz Napier; Kevin Ollie
  • Duke over Wisconsin Tyus Jones; Mike Krzyzewski
  • North Carolina over Gonzaga Joel Berry; Roy Williams
  • Villanova over Michigan Donte DiVincenzo off the bench
  • Baylor over Gonzaga Jared Butler; Scott Drew
  • Kansas over North Carolina 15-point comeback; Bill Self
  • Connecticut over Purdue Dan Hurley's back-to-back Huskies

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