Can you name the colleges that these NBA players attended?

Player	College
Stephon Marbury
Gary Payton
Andre Iguodala
Marcus Camby
Ron Artest
Anfernee Hardaway
Allen Iverson
Lamar Odom
Tim Duncan
Rod Strickland
David West
Vince Carter
Joe Johnson
Steve Nash
Dwyane Wade
Tom Gugliotta
Michael Redd
Carmelo Anthony
Devin Harris
John Stockton

Player	College
Chris Webber
Chauncey Billups
Kevin Durant
Steve Francis
Shaquille O'Neal
Paul Westphal
Bill Bradley
Paul Pierce
Michael Beasley
Mo Williams
Kenyon Martin
Wally Szczerbiak
Hakeem Olajuwon
Danny Granger
Jerry West
Brandon Roy
Kevin McHale
Shane Battier
Theo Ratliff
Keith Van Horn

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NBA Alma Maters Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: April 21st, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 185,321

Tags: College Quizzes, NBA Quizzes, player, mater, attended, Alma Maters

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	Tchaikovsky08:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 17:30 GMT	3 points
	Somehow the Mad Dog Mark Madsen has used his Stanford education to convince NBA teams to keep him on a roster...pretty good use of his education if you ask me

	gopaladins:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 17:32 GMT	18 points
	better title for this quiz: name a bunch of colleges.

	montecarlo:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 17:32 GMT	5 points
	technically, the school anfernee hardaway went to had the word "state" at the end of it, back when he went there. great quiz, though.

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	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 17:49 GMT	27 points
	The quiz would work better if you had to answer them one-by-one. As is, it's too easy to simply name a bunch of colleges (in fact, just name a bunch of states) and get a lot that you don't know.

	JohnJF:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 17:51 GMT	7 points
	Great idea for a quiz (though naming it one-by-one would probably make it better). I would absolutely love if they had an NFL version(s) as well.

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	john:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 18:02 GMT	3 points
	As much as I dislike UConn, they are a glaring omission. Gordon, Butler, Okafor, Hamilton, Ray Allen, the great Jake Voskuil.....

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	Cuthbert_Twilley:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 18:23 GMT	2 points
	@john: I don't think the point of the quiz was to name all the great feeder schools. It's more a quiz on what schools did this selection of players attend. However, Ben, how 'bout a quiz on what schools have produced the most all-stars?

	Zazu:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 18:26 GMT	-1 points
	where's UCLA with Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Walt Hazzard, or Bill Walton?

	XYlophonetreeZ:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 18:37 GMT	7 points
	This would be a much better quiz if the answers had to be guessed in order.

	Wes_Mantooth:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 18:52 GMT	4 points
	I get North Carolina by typing UNC. I get Massachusetts by typing UMass. Why don't I get Rhode Island by typing URI?

	Kicking222:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 19:05 GMT	8 points
	This was cool, but if there's another, I'd like to see more schools that legendary players went to that you might not think of- like Stockton at Gonzaga and Olajuwon at Houston, you've got guys such as David Robinson (Navy), Bill Russell (San Francisco) Karl Malone (Louisiana Tech), Walt Frazier (Southern Illinois), Willis Reed (Grambling), etc. Hell, you could even include some goofy ones, like Manute Bol (University of Bridgeport) and the late Hank Gathers (Loyola Marymount). Sure, this is a great idea for a quiz, but as others have said, you can still get most of them by just guessing states and big colleges. (An aside: I couldn't disagree more with people complaining about a particular school missing- there's no rule saying you have to include every school with a good basketball program.)

	brianc:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 19:07 GMT	0 points
	surprised there was no ucla, florida or uconn but still a great quiz

	Shaft41:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 19:43 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz - I've been waiting for this one. Ben is, as usual, the man. Danny Granger also attended Bradley, although he went from New Mexico to the NBA.

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	SPORKLER:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 20:02 GMT	-1 points
	Danny Granger attended Bradley University before he transferred to New Mexico...so that should technically be an acceptable answer as well

	wildcatsixer10:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 20:26 GMT	2 points
	There needs to be this quiz 3X over... this is the one quiz i could do and do well for almost all of the active players in the league right now

	mkgrenwel:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 20:29 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz. I agree it should require you guess them individually, though, as should be the case for any game of this structure.

	mkgrenwel:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 20:34 GMT	-1 points
	Another vote for URI to count. IMHO initials/abbreviations should be accepted when they are in common usage and understood to refer to such school. If I said I went to WVU, that wouldn't be recognized as West Virginia, so that should not be accepter (for example) but URI is always recognized as Rhode Island (at least around here). Same would go for LSU/Louisiana State vs PSU/Penn State.

	Camden:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 21:22 GMT	-1 points
	More good/tough ones for part II (without the answers): Earl Boykins, Ben Wallace, Vin Baker, Robert Parish, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, Derek Fisher, Dennis Rodman, Joe Dumars, Tim Hardaway, Erik Dampier, Ed Pinckney, Karl Malone, Elgin Baylor, Jason Kidd, Greg Anthony, Hersey Hawkins, Linus Klieza, Bob Cousy...

	Camden:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 21:31 GMT	1 point
	@John Mutford: You watch your mouth!

	pbrown:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 22:02 GMT	-3 points
	there should be some trick answers.....like ask for Kobe Bryant's college, oh wait, he didn't go to college

	bcsnd33:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 22:03 GMT	3 points
	good quiz...do one with football players, PLEASE

	elgato10x:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 23:02 GMT	3 points
	Yeah, we need an NFL one too

	Kevin:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 23:17 GMT	0 points
	@Camden - Those are all quality. Off the top of my head, I know Bird, Pinckney, Malone, Kidd, and Cousey. The rest I would cry on.

	diamondsight:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 23:22 GMT	0 points
	Surprised UCLA and Kentucky aren't represented.

	SCWAT:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 23:31 GMT	-2 points
	plz make mor!!!1! best game evr on sporcle!!!!!1!!!

	mkgrenwel:	Apr 21st, 2009 at 23:58 GMT	4 points
	I request lots more, including many football versions as well. Also agreeing on the suggestion of guessing what schools have produced the most all stars, and maybe even quizzes where Sporcle names a school and we name all the NBA all stars (or NFL pro bowlers) they have produced.

	Pats4Life:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 00:26 GMT	-2 points
	I know I'm going to get minuses for this but it has to be said, as much as possible, UConn has to be up here. It has the most current players in the NBA, 13: Allen, Armstrong, Boone, Butler, Gay, Gordon, Hamilton, Marshall, Okafor, Ollie, Villanueva, Voskuhl, Williams. You choose, Ben.

	bmo1616:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 01:13 GMT	-1 points
	No minuses from me Richard, GO HUSKIES!

	chillicothe20:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 02:58 GMT	-1 points
	Larry Bird = Indiana state

	fo_sho_yo:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 06:24 GMT	1 point
	27/40 just from guessing DI schools. I agree with Kicking222, using more obscure alma maters would help the quiz.

	croppja:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 06:34 GMT	1 point
	Great game, but I think they should have to be named in order so people cant just keep typing in a bunch of random schools. Jus my opinion. Please do a part 2.