Quiz: NCAA tournament No. 16 seed or made-up school?

Can you tell the fake schools from the ones that made the tournament?

Dan Gartland | Mar 4, 2016

Quiz: NCAA tournament No. 16 seed or made-up school? /

March is the time of year when casual college basketball fans find themselves doing an awful lot of Google searches. Who is Scoochie Smith? Is Fairleigh Dickinson even a real school?

Even moderately knowledgeable fans may find themselves flummoxed by the No. 16 seeds in this year’s tournament, which is why we made this quiz. Can you pick out which schools have appeared as No. 16 seeds since 2006, and which we totally fabricated?

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Published Mar 4, 2016

DAN GARTLAND

Dan Gartland is the writer and editor of Sports Illustrated’s flagship daily newsletter, SI:AM, covering everything an educated sports fan needs to know. He joined the SI staff in 2014, having previously been published on Deadspin and Slate. Gartland, a graduate of Fordham University, is a former Sports Jeopardy! champion (Season 1, Episode 5).