Conference changes for the 2018-19 season: North Alabama joining Atlantic Sun, Hampton and USC Upstate moving to Big South, North Dakota moving to Summit and California Baptist joining Western Athletic.
IPFW no longer exists. July 1st, 2018, it split into Indiana Fort Wayne and Purdue Fort Wayne, with all athletics becoming the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons.
I've been working on this and I can complete the quiz in under 4 minutes without using many abbreviations at all. The best way for me to blast through it without forgetting any was to memorize which state every college is in and go state by state geographically in my mind. Within each state you group things in ways that make sense to you. Take Virginia for instance. Do all the colleges with Virginia in the name first. Then Old Dominion since it's a nickname for Virginia. Then the Rs,
Richmond and Radford, the Ls LIberty and Longwood and the coast cities of Hampton and Norfolk St. Then the names, William and Mary, James Madison, George Mason, George Washington. With practice you can run it pretty quickly that way.
Maybe you misspoke, but 353 answers typed in less than 240 seconds (4 minutes)?? Not possible to both think of all those answers and type them in that time, unless you had a printed list next to you. Sorry to be the skeptic, but I typed nearly nonstop for the first 15 minutes of this and had around 200 tops.
I agree with most of the people here - needs more time! If you have to type at breakneck speed then it is no longer a trivia quiz, it is a typing test. Trivia is about knowing facts, not about how fast you can type. Unlimited is not an option because you don't get credit towards your level.
For those of you who are close, but just can't get those last few, you can shave off some time by combining some answers. Some states have a University of "STATE" and a "STATE" State University. If you're not already doing so, you can type "st" and then backspace and type the "state name". That will give you both answers without having to type the state name twice. Also if there is a direction in the name like east or eastern, you can just type the 1st letter of the direction (e, s, w or n) and the state name (doesn't work for all of them but does for most).
New teams for 2020! Dixie State, Bellarmine, UC San Diego and Tarleton State. Not all of them are eligible for the bracket, but they have been placed in conferences for the 2020 season.
Bellarmine is listed in the ASUN standings on the NCAA webpage. Apparently, they compete for four years at the DI level, but aren't eligible for the bracket until that process is completed. So, I would say, based on that, they should be included in this quiz. If you have info to the contrary, by all means share it. I'm just as curious as you :)
I got 187, I would say pretty good for an 11 year old. This was also my first time! I did miss Texas Tech and Baylor which I thought I had aready typed. Has anyone ever got all the teams?
The name is just a brand at this point, conference realignment happens all the time so the number of teams per conferences fluctuates. The original Big Ten had ten teams, but hasn't had ten since 1991. It still keeps the original name though.
Can we please accept more abbreviations? Down here in Riverside we always say "UCR" and "CBU" (for Cal Baptist). Neither of these are accepted currently.
Just want to comment that I really appreciate that you only update this every two years. It's challenging when very large quizzes get updated once a year (or more) just because there's a name change or something. So thank you for being reasonable!
I see from the comment above that you are on a two year update schedule, but just thought I'd mention that Houston Baptist University is now Houston Christian University.
Realignment has been a big headache but Coastal Carolina didn't move back to the Big South, did they? I thought they were in the Sun Belt. And Wichita State didn't leave the American either? It seems as if some of these schools reverted back to their old conferences by accident.
Edit: I'm just going to list out the issues I see..
Wichita State: American, not Missouri Valley
Presbyterian: Big South, not ASUN
Coastal Carolina: Sun Belt, not Big South
Valparaiso: Missouri Valley, not Horizon
Abilene Christian: WAC, not Southland
One last thing: Typing in Indiana is also giving credit for Southern Indiana. I apologize for the length and hope I don't come across too harshly, I just found myself confused while taking the quiz.
Im up to 282 wich is better than 80 percent Of the test takers. And No help from google... to be fair some of these schools are very small and most people wouldn't even know they existed, unless they Googled it
Penn, Penn State
Michigan, Michigan State
lol just doing this for every state gives you a huge chunk.
Richmond and Radford, the Ls LIberty and Longwood and the coast cities of Hampton and Norfolk St. Then the names, William and Mary, James Madison, George Mason, George Washington. With practice you can run it pretty quickly that way.
Creighton and St. John's were my only top tier (P5, BEC, AAC) misses.
ull- louisiana lafayette
ulm- louisiana monroe (they compete as ULM in any case)
ccsu- central connecticut st
mtsu- middle tennessee st
etsu- east tennessee st
There were others, but these five stuck out to me..
-_-
Dixie St, UC San Diego and Tarleton are indeed competing in D-1 now.
Dixie St & Tarleton in the WAC
UC San Diego in Big West
NJIT moved from Atl Sun to AEC
CSU Bakersfield moved from WAC to Big West
Purdue Fort Wayne and Robert Morris moved to Horizon
Missouri Kansas City moved from WAC to Summit
Lindenwood (Ohio Valley)
Southern Indiana (Ohio Valley)
Stonehill (Northeast)
Texas A&M Commerce (Southland)
Edit: I'm just going to list out the issues I see..
Wichita State: American, not Missouri Valley
Presbyterian: Big South, not ASUN
Coastal Carolina: Sun Belt, not Big South
Valparaiso: Missouri Valley, not Horizon
Abilene Christian: WAC, not Southland
One last thing: Typing in Indiana is also giving credit for Southern Indiana. I apologize for the length and hope I don't come across too harshly, I just found myself confused while taking the quiz.
Actually, there are a number of conferences out of ABC order.
Colonial > Coastal
Le Moyne (new to NEC)
W Illinois > Ohio Valley
Add Le Moyne to NEC
Allow us to use "FAU" for Florida Atlantic
SEMO for Southeastern Missouri
FGCU for Florida Gulf Coast
SIUE for Southern Illinois - Edwardsville
TAMUCC for Texas A&M - Corpus Christi