Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

In August 2005, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) banned the use of " hostile and abusive " Native American mascots in postseason tournaments.

In 2005, Upper Iowa University was accepted into full membership of the NCAA Division II athletics and became a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ).

The city has held the 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second round and hosted the Big 12 Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments in 2007 ; the city will be the site again in 2009.

Men's Volleyball boasts one EIVA Championship as an NCAA Division I exception ( 1992 ) and 6 National Championships as a Division III powerhouse ( 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2009 ).

In 2002 the sport was revived for three years, preceding its full reestablishment at the NCAA level in 2005.

* Men's soccer have been NCAA Division II national champions in 2005, 2009, and 2011, and were national runners-up in 1999 and 2006.

In 2005, students organized a lacrosse club which plays other college's lacrosse clubs, but the team has yet to qualify to become an NCAA sanctioned team.

Haynie, a 2001 Mason High School graduate, was a 2005 first-round WNBA draft pick after leading Michigan State to the women's NCAA national championship game.

He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and helped lead them to the 2005 NCAA Championship.

The Nebraska women's volleyball team has won three NCAA Women's Volleyball National Championships, in 1995, 2000, and 2006 and has had three NCAA National Runner-Up finishes in 1986, 1989, and 2005 as well as 5 other NCAA National Semifinal ( Final Four ) appearances in 1990, 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2008 bringing the program total to 11 NCAA Final Four appearances.

In 2005, an NCAA volleyball-record 13, 252 tickets were pre-sold for the NCAA regionals.

Connie Yori became the head coach in 2002 and has led the Huskers to WNIT in 2004, 2005, 2006, and NCAA in 2007, 2008, and 2010.

* 2005 ( NCAA )

The Monmouth College football team has appeared in the NCAA Playoffs in 2005 and 2008.

2005 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship game between the Virginia Cavaliers and Northwestern Wildcats

The women's lacrosse team won five consecutive NCAA national championships between 2005 and 2009, went undefeated in 2005 and 2009, added another NCAA championship in 2011, and holds several scoring records.

Starting in 2005, the WSOP began a tournament " circuit " at Harrah's-owned properties in the United States where, in addition to the $ 10, 000 buy-in tournament at each site, qualifying players became eligible for a revamped Tournament of Champions.

Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005.

* D. Crouch, Tournament ( London, 2005 )

College Tournament ( University of Alabama at Birmingham ) in 2005, contestant on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

In 2005, Champaign-Urbana ( specifically the University of Illinois ) was the location of the National Science Olympiad Tournament, attracting young scientists from all 50 states.

Won the State Tournament four straight years from 2005 to 2008, took 2nd place in 2010 and took 3rd place in years 2004 and 2009.

Won the National / Regional Tournament three straight years from 2005 to 2007 and took runner-up in 2008.

The host site for the 1999, 2005 ,& 2014 U. S. Open Golf Championships, the 2008 U. S. Amateur, the 2007 women's U. S. Open Golf Tournament, the former home of the World Golf Hall of Fame ( now located in St. Augustine, Florida ), a former venue of the Tour Championship in 1991 & 1992, a recently chosen venue for the 2010 U. S. Junior Girls Golf Championship.

The Veterans Park remains a state-of-the-art baseball stadium, having hosted a Babe Ruth League World Series Tournament in 2005.

** K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in Hiroshima Tournament Winner

He continued to play at least some of the four regular Tour majors until 2005, when he made his final appearances at The Open Championship and the Masters Tournament.

He played for the U. S. team in the All Star Cup 2005, under team leader Mark O ' Meara, and has participated in the Annual Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament.

Her teams were ACC regular season champions in 2005, 2006 and 2008 and claimed the ACC Tournament title in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

A recent achievement for the Knights men's basketball team was in the 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament where they made the NCAA Tournament as a sixteenth seed and gave the top seeded Illinois Fighting Illini a huge scare.

In 2012, the team earned both the WCC regular-season and tournament championships for the first time in program history and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time since 2005.

The Tournament of Roses Radio Amateurs ( TORRA ) provided audio communications and video co-ordination for the parade officials through the use of Amateur radio from 1968 until 2005.

In March 2005, the New Breed Wrestling Association held the " Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament ", which was won by Michael Modest.

Shirov is the winner of numerous international tournaments: Biel 1991, Madrid 1997 ( shared first place with Veselin Topalov ), Ter Apel 1997, Monte Carlo 1998, Mérida 2000, two time winner of the Paul Keres Memorial International Chess Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia, with victories in 2004 and 2005 just to name a few.

Also in 2005, the Optimist Junior Golf Program expanded to include the Optimist International Tournament of Champions for top-performing junior golfers ages 14 to 18.

The Twonkers were Western Area Scrabble League champions in 2001 and 2005 and were twice runners-up in the National Scrabble Club Knockout Tournament in 1999 and 2003.

Isaacs at the Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tournament, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina | North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on 11 April 2005

* D. Crouch, Tournament ( London, 2005 )

In September 2005, Fonda was scheduled to join British politician and anti-war activist George Galloway at two stops on his U. S. book tour, Madison, Wisconsin and Chicago.

In 2005, Scarver brought a civil rights suit against the officials of the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in which he argued that he had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, contrary to his constitutional rights.

Gleason resigned in 2005 to pursue a career in Medical Consulting at Health Policy Strategies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As of 2005, Mequon was the third-largest city in terms of land area in the state of Wisconsin.

In 2005, The exhibition Axis of Evil opened at The Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia in March, 2005, and later traveled to Chicago and Green Bay, Wisconsin.

On April 5, 2005, Thompson won an unexpected victory in the common council election in Tomah, Wisconsin.

A U. S. national tour began in September 2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and starred Patrick Cassidy.

Tommy George Thompson ( born November 19, 1941 ) is a United States Republican politician who was the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2001 and U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001 to 2005.

In 2005, Fredrick N. Westerfield was running three Quiznos in Wisconsin.

Rosemary died from natural causes on January 7, 2005, at the Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, at the age of 86, with her sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, and her brother U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy by her side.

* Clear Lake housed a production brewery from 2002 to 2005 named William Kuether Brewing Company and produced and distributed ' Sconnie Ales in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Is It Time for a New Legal Realism ?, Wisconsin Law Review 2005 ( 2 ): 335-363

* In 2005, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle was declared " Governor Festivus " and during the holiday season displayed a Festivus Pole in the family room of the Executive Residence in Madison, Wisconsin.

Governor Doyle's 2005 Festivus Pole is now part of the collection of the Wisconsin Historical Museum.

The stadium was renovated at various points to raise the size of the horseshoe by nearly doubling the number of rows around the stadium in stages, placing south stands in front of the Wisconsin Field House ( built in 1930 ), the removal of the track and addition of nearly 11, 000 seats in 1958, the addition of the upper deck in 1966, and finally the 2005 addition of boxes along the eastern rim of the stadium.

Badger fans fill the stadium during a 2005 Michigan at Wisconsin football game.

Madison, Wisconsin: American Musicological Society / A-R Editions, 2005.

* Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin, 1990 – 2005

Despite playing through rumors of sale and relocation in the near future to Marion, Illinois, the Silver Hawks managed a championship season in 2005, beating the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers three games to two and winning the 2005 Midwest League Championship.

WFC 2005 was held in Madison, Wisconsin and chaired by Meg Turville-Heitz.

On January 25, 2005, Green ’ s federal campaign account converted nearly all of its funds into a state campaign fund " Green for Wisconsin.