Game On: Basketball Quiz

Coach Bob Knight, known for his temper, lost his job at the University of Indiana after he was found to have choked one of his players.

Though it was first coined in print by writer Henry Porter in 1939, "March Madness" was first used on a broadcast by Brent Musburger

Pat Riley, who coached the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat to victory, spent a lackluster career as a player in the 1960s for the Rockets, the Lakers and the Suns.

Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls stopped Johnson during four straight games, effectively taking the Lakers' star player out of the games during the 1991 NBA finals.

The semicircle called the freethrow lane, located between the free throw line and the basket, is also called "the paint."

Power forwards usually stay close to the basket; one of their main jobs is to catch rebound balls when another player doesn't sink it.

Patrick Ewing averaged 23.8 points per game (ppg) during his first decade with the Knicks. He peaked in the 1989-90 season, averaging 28.6 ppg.

A team that touches the ball behind midcourt without allowing the defensive team to touch the ball first gets a backcourt violation and the defensive team is given the ball.

Karl Malone comes in at the No. 2 spot for the NBA's leading scorer of all time, only behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Dr. James Naismith is credited with inventing basketball in 1891. He nailed two peach baskets on opposite sides of a YMCA gym in Springfield, Mass.