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Jason Carmel Davis is a copy editor/page designer with the Oakland Press and Heritage Newspapers. Davis has also written a number of offbeat sports columns for other publications, as he has an unhealthy obsession with all things athletics. It's so unhealthy that he has planned the births of his (future) children around Bowl Season, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and the NBA and NFL drafts.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

March Madness Day III: The Famous Alum game

With so many teams playing in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament each years, fans can't help but wonder who some of each school's most notable alumni are.

Here is a list of some interesting ones, including a non-qualifiers that may only amuse me.

Butler University, which is playing right now, has current Ohio State basketball coach Thad Matta; Bobby Plump, who played on the 1954 Milan High School Championship basketball team, and Jim Jones - not the (awful) rapper, but the founder of the People's Temple Cult, where 918 people were killed on Nov. 17, 1978.

Number-one overall seed Kansas lists Bob Dole, Scott Bakula (of "Quantum Leap" fame), and Elmer McCollum - co-discoverer of Vitamin A.

Locally, Oakland University recognizes Robert Englund (a.k.a. Freddy Krueger) and Curtis Armstrong (Booger from "Revenge of the Nerds") as famous alums. It also lists David Hasselhoff as having attended the school in Rochester. If there were a prop bet for "weirdest alumni of any team in the Dance," I'd take Oakland and clean out my Savings Acct. to make that bet.

The University of Houston lists Star Jones, CBS play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and Master P as notable alums.

They aren't in the tournament (as usual), but I thought it made sense that Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. The Unabomber, earned a Ph.D. in math from Michigan.

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