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NCAA basketball champions

Order by the year the title game was won. You place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

NCAA basketball champions
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How the NCAA basketball champions timeline works

March Madness ends with a title game, and each card here is one of them, written as the champion over the runner-up. Underneath you'll see the star player, the coach or the play that decided it. Order the games by the year the title was won. One champion starts on the timeline with its year showing. Place each new card in a gap; correct guesses reveal the year, and misses still put the game in its true spot but cost one of three lives.

Blue-blood programs win repeatedly, so the school names will rarely settle a card on their own. The line underneath is where the help is: a star who went on to the pros, a coach's first title, a buzzer-beater you remember. Coaches with long tenures are the trickiest clue, since the same name can appear on titles far apart, and back-to-back champions are easy to swap.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 10 times. An average run places 13.3 cards, and 82% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Indiana over Syracuse missed 60% of the time, usually by a single place
  • Kansas over Oklahoma missed 40% of the time, usually by a single place
  • Georgetown over Houston missed 40% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 44 cards you might be dealt, with 16 more in the deck. Their 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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