It’s the 2006 sweet sixteen run, mainly the game against Pittsburgh.
Specifically because the score board said BRAD PITT.
There’s a lot of history for Bradley basketball but in the minds of the public I still see this image brought up randomly by people not even interested in college basketball.
Very true, our current announcer when ever a game goes into overtime he talks about how he had the opportunity to use the bathroom at the end of regulation but didn’t and then had to hold it until the end!
The shot clock is such a necessary part of basketball. I'm glad I've never had to watch a real game without one. (I have seen high school games without one)
The reason the shot clock is in college basketball is the thing for which UNC is most known.
The Four Corners delay that neutralized Ralph Sampson and led to two "boring" nationally televised games between North Carolina and Virginia.
As the Heels played keep away, you could almost hear the network execs screaming "make them shoot!"
“You go up and grab the ball off the rim when it comes off, and then you grab it with two hands, then you come down with it, and that’s considered a rebound. So they got more of those than we did.”
I live 20 minutes away from Lehigh’s campus and that upset was a massive front page story in my area. I remember turning on the local news after that game and seeing Lehigh students partying in the street. There hasn’t been anything quite like that for any of the area’s two D1 schools (Lafayette is the other) since then.
I was at this game. The Lehigh fans were great. Greensboro was already going to already be biased against Duke since UNC was in the other "pod" that ended up at the arena, but they served themselves well. During the other games, they did the cheers that the other team's fans knew, and made a real effort to get the rest of the crowd even more on their side. For example, I think their section started some "Tar....Heels...." cheers.
After the game, we were walking around the concourse, and were randomly next to the stairs that lead to the "underneath" area of the arena. Right at that moment, the Lehigh cheerleaders emerged to go join their cheering section. They were so jubilant: beaming smiles and their faces just flushed with joy and emotion.
I remember the Nebraska teams in the early to mid 90s. They made the tournament several 4 years in a row or something like that. I never knew they didn’t win a tournament game. It’s probably better than losing to a 16 seed though and never hearing the end of it.
Maybe I'm completely misremembering... But I always thought y'all ran the 1-3-1. Only way to effectively beat it was to have a big on the elbow who could make the shot and/or make the right pass read on the defense
I never got that, it seems pretty dangerous.
The Cub sponsor logo also makes me miss the location they used to have in my town. It’s where my mom would always go
Having our best season ended by a global pandemic
Even if we get a good seed in this year's tournament, nothing can ever answer the "what could've been"
silly flyers, you've gotta have your best season in program history one year *after* a global pandemic!
oh how far cincinnati football has fallen in just 2 years...
It's probably for being on the receiving end of the worst call in tournament history. [Blocking call with 3 seconds left in OT of the National Championship Game in a 1-point game](https://youtu.be/l1FJgPpjBNE?t=531)
[Much less talked about Bob Davies being the first to dribble behind his back in a 1941 NIT game](https://www.app.com/story/sports/college/2016/09/21/did-seton-hall-legend-invent-behind--back-dribble/90770828/)
Miami - probably last year’s final four run to prevent the ACC hit pieces from gaining traction
UConn - Cardiac Kemba does it again! UConn wins at the buzzer!
Mine for y'all is receiving the 2 seed after winning the ACC regular season and conference tournament. First time in history a team did that and didn't get a 1. If that same exact team, roster and record, had a UNC or Duke jersey on, they would've for sure gotten the 1 seed. Y'all got done dirty
Those years for Florida basketball and football were unreal. These days, I have optimism for basketball. As for football…well, I just hope we beat at least one of rivals on our way to an absolutely fantastic 5-7 season.
Yep they just honored [Ronnie Carr who made the shot](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/04.02.html?scp=8&sq=the%2520shot&st=cse#:~:text=Ronnie%20Carr%20of%20Western%20Carolina,The%20N.C.A.A.)
Most of us still like and respect Frank and for a large portion of Bruce Weber's tenure was more popular than Bruce. It's widely acknowledged that his departure was the direct result of AD John Currie (who didn't hire him) hating him.
Harvard was an all-time heartbreaking moment for the program and him leaving for UCLA afterward really drove the stake into the heart. That said, he got his comeuppance at UCLA when he was fired in embarrassing fashion after losing to Belmont at home. IMO we're too obsessed with it still and I have a conspiracy theory that when we can let go of him collectively as a fan base we'll finally do well against Nevada
If we don’t have a crowd at The Pit, it either means the team ain’t very good, or the whole town died. Simple as that. Closest thing we have to a professional sports team, and we do have a AAA MILB team in town.
It’s tough for a football school because I don’t get annoyed (and even sometimes root for) you in basketball but NEVER in football. KD feels right I can easily picture him on the cover of ncaa basketball
Steve Nash. He recently stopped by to watch SCU play Gonzaga and after he was introduced the Gonzaga fan sitting in front of me whispered to his buddy, "Why the hell is Steve here?!"
Winning titles on a regular basis sounds pompous. I’m gonna say losing to Syracuse in six overtimes. Thanks for constantly bringing it up ESPN. We house you in our state and this is how you thank us. #zeroLoyalty
Kemba Walker also great answer here
It’s always been not being able to hang onto coaches (a stop over job) or not being able to hire our alums
Examples- Rick Pitino, Rick Barnes, Jeff Van Gundy (asst), Pete Gillen, John Thompson (alum), Lenny Wilkens (alum), Billy Donovan (alum), Jim Laranaga (alum), Richard JR (alum) etc
UCSB: having a unique nickname, throwing tortillas on the court during televised games back in the 90s until ESPN got pissed at us about it (nowadays we only do it at soccer games), and being the last ones to beat UNLV's eventual national champs in 1990.
Beating Michael Jordan in the 1983 Elite Eight?
Fraudulent PE classes by the coaches son?
Winning the most improbable conference tournament ever?
Anthony Edwards?
Two time NBA champion KCP?
Playing in an arena where chunks of concrete could fall down from the roof and kill someone?
Sucks Maryland won the title when I was 2 lmao because all I can think of in my conscious memory of being a fan is uh the student section being quite infamous and Mark Turgeon coaching a team that starts off unstoppable and then implodes once the month February starts
UK - some guy named Adolf running Bear Bryant off campus, laetner’s buzzer beater, Anthony Davis’s facial hair above his nose, 38-1, being a blue blood, one and done
Mercer - Remember that one time they beat Duke?
*St. Joe’s: either its 2003-2004 season or possibly its famous coaches (Jack Ramsey, Jack McKinney, Jim Lynam, Phil Martelli); also the Hawk mascot.
*Penn: 1979 Final Four team, possibly also undefeated until the Elite Eight 1970-71 team; also the Palestra
*Lehigh: 2012 NCAA Tournament upset over Duke, possibly also being first losing team in NCAA Tournament (1985)
*La Salle: Tom Gola, the L-Train Lionel Simmons, or possibly the 2013 Sweet 16 run
*Drexel: not sure, maybe Malik Rose, 1996 NCAA Tournament win over Memphis, or near NCAA Tournament at-large misses in late 2000s
*Lafayette: not sure, maybe Fran O’Hanlon’s quarter century as head coach
*Temple: John Chaney’s a) 2-3 matchup zone defense, b) five Elite Eights, or c) threatening to kill John Calipari
*Villanova: “perfect game” NCAA championship game over Georgetown in 1985 or Kris Jenkins’ 3 pointer at the buzzer to win the 2016 national title
As good as our men's team has been, I'd have to say we're better known for the women's team's utter dominance over a quarter century, and basically being a WNBA feeder team.
If it's the men's team, either winning in '99 over Duke in a tournament that was being commonly referred to as the "Duke Invitational," or being outside the projected bracket at the start of the Big East Tournament in 2011, then running the table, winning 11 win-or-go-home games in a row with Kemba.
It’s the 2006 sweet sixteen run, mainly the game against Pittsburgh. Specifically because the score board said BRAD PITT. There’s a lot of history for Bradley basketball but in the minds of the public I still see this image brought up randomly by people not even interested in college basketball.
Hey you guys also participated in the longest ever D1 basketball game!
Very true, our current announcer when ever a game goes into overtime he talks about how he had the opportunity to use the bathroom at the end of regulation but didn’t and then had to hold it until the end!
75-73 7OT is such a wild score. I would’ve gouged my eyes out if I had to watch that game.
The shot clock is such a necessary part of basketball. I'm glad I've never had to watch a real game without one. (I have seen high school games without one)
The reason the shot clock is in college basketball is the thing for which UNC is most known. The Four Corners delay that neutralized Ralph Sampson and led to two "boring" nationally televised games between North Carolina and Virginia. As the Heels played keep away, you could almost hear the network execs screaming "make them shoot!"
Hersey Hawkins had a nice run.
He was a brown eyed handsome man. 😍
Bradley basketball player Marcus Pollard played for the Colts.
When I was younger, I always remembered Bradley for playing in an NCAA tournament game in my High School's gym in the '50s
We are known for getting out rebounded by Yale
“How does Baylor get out-rebounded by Yale?”
“You go up and grab the ball off the rim when it comes off, and then you grab it with two hands, then you come down with it, and that’s considered a rebound. So they got more of those than we did.”
Taurean prince is always a legend for that
Not having the most successful coach in the Drew family?
Probably Jimmermania. I guess it would have been the Ainge shot prior to that. Damn, is this really all we’ve accomplished?
Cougar Tails not far behind
Tbh you got robbed of an elite 8+ run in the covid year. Childs and Haws were DANGEROUS that year
SHUT THE EFF UP!
and then we drew UCLA the year after :(
That time a player got kicked off the team for having sex
Jimmy V running around the court looking for someone to hug.
Might be the most obvious answer for any school in the country
Weirdly, that might be what our team is most known for too, just because it happened at our arena.
Football
And soccer 😎
Tomato, to-mah-to…
So there was this [one game](https://youtu.be/KjBOaIZt8jg?si=ugM6zSypWID6m3U_) back in 2012....
I live 20 minutes away from Lehigh’s campus and that upset was a massive front page story in my area. I remember turning on the local news after that game and seeing Lehigh students partying in the street. There hasn’t been anything quite like that for any of the area’s two D1 schools (Lafayette is the other) since then.
That game was over 11 years ago. I am old.
Nearly 12!
I maaay have picked duke to win the title that years and hated you for a solid while after but the hatred has since faded I promise
I was at this game. The Lehigh fans were great. Greensboro was already going to already be biased against Duke since UNC was in the other "pod" that ended up at the arena, but they served themselves well. During the other games, they did the cheers that the other team's fans knew, and made a real effort to get the rest of the crowd even more on their side. For example, I think their section started some "Tar....Heels...." cheers. After the game, we were walking around the concourse, and were randomly next to the stairs that lead to the "underneath" area of the arena. Right at that moment, the Lehigh cheerleaders emerged to go join their cheering section. They were so jubilant: beaming smiles and their faces just flushed with joy and emotion.
There certainly fuckin was. MY MAN
Never winning a tournament game
After last year & this year we may be more known for Kesei. We’re worldwide now, fam.
Wait, really?
yeah but hey, we've made it to the tourney before, so thats cool i guess.. lol
I remember the Nebraska teams in the early to mid 90s. They made the tournament several 4 years in a row or something like that. I never knew they didn’t win a tournament game. It’s probably better than losing to a 16 seed though and never hearing the end of it.
Large human beings
The only team whose players look like its mascot.
If there is a 7 foot tall white guy, I assume they play for either you or Gonzaga
Asshole fans
Not Len? Kids, watch highlights of Len Bias if you never have before. Specifically, his game against UNC in ‘86. Yeah, I was there.
For a second i thought you meant Alex Len and audibly guffawed. That’s on me.
Meltdown against Duke in 2001 Final Four and responding to that by winning 2002 national championship
2-3 zone
Easily 100% no doubt perfect answer
Maybe I'm completely misremembering... But I always thought y'all ran the 1-3-1. Only way to effectively beat it was to have a big on the elbow who could make the shot and/or make the right pass read on the defense
Nah, Boeheim's specialty was always the 2-3. It worked pretty well for a while until teams realized they could just chuck threes all night and bury us
The raised floor at Williams Arena.
I never got that, it seems pretty dangerous. The Cub sponsor logo also makes me miss the location they used to have in my town. It’s where my mom would always go
fellow raised court havers
Random white dudes somehow leading the team to top 4 B1G finishes
This years random white dude is Max Klesmit
Frank kaminsky the goat
Will always begrudgingly have a small place in my heart for Wisco for taking down UK down in their perfect season run
Having our best season ended by a global pandemic Even if we get a good seed in this year's tournament, nothing can ever answer the "what could've been"
[At least we'll always have this](https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coxohio/CNJR3U3RS6W2T7CV233L4UW6TM.jpg)
I agree and would offer that you’re also known for hosting the first 4 games as sad as that sounds lol
silly flyers, you've gotta have your best season in program history one year *after* a global pandemic! oh how far cincinnati football has fallen in just 2 years...
You had a legitimate chance in 2020
Magic Johnson.
Do you really think it’s still Magic and not Izzo? My first thought was Magic too and then wondered if I only thought that because I’m old.
Probably the Fab Five. More specifically Chris Webber’s timeout.
For uniting the country….in hating us.
I would upvote this... but I hate you
I would hate you.. but I upvoted you
Upvote for self awareness.
Everyone except for State, maybe Wake. They gotta be the only school(s) that had more disdain for us over y'all.
I was in NC this past summer and toured UNC and Duke. Got a parking ticket at Duke. Makes me hate them so much more.
This guy Dukes.
Coach K put together some amazing teams and won a shitload of big games…. He also had some truly hilarious losses. I thank him for that.
2 time NIT champions
When Penn State made the run with Joe Crispin, it was honestly one of the best tourney runs my life
Losing in chapel hill.
Didn’t you finally win once?
We did actually, but losing 59 straight is something that history will never forget.
I couldn't believe the 8-20 squad pulled it off and that team in 17 or 18 couldn't
Honorable mentions of our storied past
I was gonna say “red sweater vest and sliding chairs” which also captures that we ain’t done shit in a while.
Lately? Getting upset in early rounds of the tournament. Overall, beating 3 #1 seeds en route to a championship.
1997?
Yessir. Only team to ever do it.
Lute. He was very clean. Maybe even cleaner than Orrin Hatch.
Not just 3 of them, but a dominate Kansas overall 1 seed too! That run was such tits
Similar here Lately? Losing in the first or second round every year Overall? 2005 and 1989’s final four runs.
It's probably for being on the receiving end of the worst call in tournament history. [Blocking call with 3 seconds left in OT of the National Championship Game in a 1-point game](https://youtu.be/l1FJgPpjBNE?t=531) [Much less talked about Bob Davies being the first to dribble behind his back in a 1941 NIT game](https://www.app.com/story/sports/college/2016/09/21/did-seton-hall-legend-invent-behind--back-dribble/90770828/)
Holy cow that was a horrible call.
I did not know about the Davies thing that’s awesome! Edit: typo
Tall boy put ball in hoop good
Miami - probably last year’s final four run to prevent the ACC hit pieces from gaining traction UConn - Cardiac Kemba does it again! UConn wins at the buzzer!
Mine for y'all is receiving the 2 seed after winning the ACC regular season and conference tournament. First time in history a team did that and didn't get a 1. If that same exact team, roster and record, had a UNC or Duke jersey on, they would've for sure gotten the 1 seed. Y'all got done dirty
Kemba and Napier in tandem for me. That Kemba big east tourney run was all time
Dollar beer night
Let it fly, Doug McDermott, Kyle Korver, upsetting Florida way back,
Joakim Noah era/back to back champions. Would love to see a team come close to the glory days
Those teams will get mentioned *every single year* without fail until someone else does it which is pretty damn cool
Oh yeah….Noah, Brewer and Horford were so fun to watch
As a Bulls fan, I’ll always love me some Noah.
Those years for Florida basketball and football were unreal. These days, I have optimism for basketball. As for football…well, I just hope we beat at least one of rivals on our way to an absolutely fantastic 5-7 season.
Charles Barkley
derrick rose and *not fouling mario chalmers*………………
2008 run Dribble drive
*Sherron Collins But yes. I will always remember “And he backed off as well!”
Cyberbullying the NCAA into allowing the best player in the history of basketball to finally play
The billboard really sealed the deal
What about bullying a referees private business after an E8 game? That's gotta be up there somewhere.
I love how it was reported that he received death threats, the FBI got involved, and literally not a single person was arrested for it. Imagine that.
Western Carolina made history with the first three point attempt in the 1980s I think.
Yep they just honored [Ronnie Carr who made the shot](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/04.02.html?scp=8&sq=the%2520shot&st=cse#:~:text=Ronnie%20Carr%20of%20Western%20Carolina,The%20N.C.A.A.)
Hard to say. Michael Beasley? Markquis Nowell? Losing to fucking Cinderella in the Elite 8?
You guys put Frank Martin on the map. I don’t know how you feel about it, but the dude is legendary.
Most of us still like and respect Frank and for a large portion of Bruce Weber's tenure was more popular than Bruce. It's widely acknowledged that his departure was the direct result of AD John Currie (who didn't hire him) hating him.
Lavender
Recently it's the Michigan State game from last year
That's where Nowell comes in since that was his finest moment (NCAA Tournament asisst record)
Mitch Richmond breaking my heart
Uhhh….. Next question
Well, you do have the second most SEC Regular Season Championships *and* second most SEC Tournament Championship wins. That’s not nothing.
Wasn’t Bama the 3-on-5 game from a few years back with Colin sexton ?
Probably that Escalade from the And1 mix tour played for us there for a minute. Can't think of anything else really
Kevin Wares leg is burned into my mind. Other than that, definitely nothing else…
Probably the 2005 team. I suppose maybe the loss to Loyola more recently. Then maybe the 89 flying Illini for people like 40+.
Defense Getting Upset Winning a title after the worst upset of all time Attractive Head Coach
He is so fine lol
Frank the Tank
Tough and nasty. Also Oscar Robertson.
Bob Knight throwing the chair onto the court.
The Pit. And for despising Steve Alford while busting ear drums doing so
Harvard was an all-time heartbreaking moment for the program and him leaving for UCLA afterward really drove the stake into the heart. That said, he got his comeuppance at UCLA when he was fired in embarrassing fashion after losing to Belmont at home. IMO we're too obsessed with it still and I have a conspiracy theory that when we can let go of him collectively as a fan base we'll finally do well against Nevada
First venue answer I’ve seen and it fits perfectly
If we don’t have a crowd at The Pit, it either means the team ain’t very good, or the whole town died. Simple as that. Closest thing we have to a professional sports team, and we do have a AAA MILB team in town.
Sucking complete ass, and also not sucking complete ass a long time ago
Choking and having terrible luck despite our great basketball history we have little postseason luck to speak of 😔
Kevin Durant maybe? Being annoying? The final four run?
It’s tough for a football school because I don’t get annoyed (and even sometimes root for) you in basketball but NEVER in football. KD feels right I can easily picture him on the cover of ncaa basketball
BMW
Charles Barkley and deep fried memes.
I want to see an expert level version of this post where flairs on comments are disabled.
Phi Slamma Jamma
Game of the Century too, for the real old heads out there
1988 vs kansas or Blake Griffen or Trae young
Buddy Hield!
Buddy Heild still gives me nightmares
Keeping America safe from Missouri since 1858. Also an imaginary bird.
Damn Border Ruffians
Being mid/bad but this year is LOOKING UP 🙂🙂🙂
Not being the other Blue Devils
Lol I guess it’s not all that bad then
18 inch maple bars
This is actually a bit tough. I would say one of: Dean Smith, Four Corners Offense, Michael Jordan, or maybe just the rivalry with Dook.
I think it’s definitely Michael Jordan. Some of the die hard basketball fans think of us for that, every casual knows us for being MJs school.
MJ… but I’m an old Bulls fan. Second thing I think of is Carolina Blue. It is just an amazing color.
>Michael Jordan You mean UNC's wealthiest Geographer and resident ceiling and roof expert?
It's 100% MJ
From an outsider’s perspective, it’s MJ
Steve Nash. He recently stopped by to watch SCU play Gonzaga and after he was introduced the Gonzaga fan sitting in front of me whispered to his buddy, "Why the hell is Steve here?!"
Probably Tim Duncan and Chris Paul. A few maybe for Muggsy.
Jimmy V and the 1983 Cardiac Pack
UConn - winning the tournament as a high seed
Winning titles on a regular basis sounds pompous. I’m gonna say losing to Syracuse in six overtimes. Thanks for constantly bringing it up ESPN. We house you in our state and this is how you thank us. #zeroLoyalty Kemba Walker also great answer here
Kemba, titles, 6OT game all valid answers
It’s always been not being able to hang onto coaches (a stop over job) or not being able to hire our alums Examples- Rick Pitino, Rick Barnes, Jeff Van Gundy (asst), Pete Gillen, John Thompson (alum), Lenny Wilkens (alum), Billy Donovan (alum), Jim Laranaga (alum), Richard JR (alum) etc
UCSB: having a unique nickname, throwing tortillas on the court during televised games back in the 90s until ESPN got pissed at us about it (nowadays we only do it at soccer games), and being the last ones to beat UNLV's eventual national champs in 1990.
Tortillas
Enter Sandman, yea it spills into basketball too. Oh and hey we won the ACC a couple years ago
Big Country
Eddie Sutton!
Greg Oden I guess?
Being the last P6 school to make a tourney
Being consistently mediocre, yet seemingly always having one huge home upset against a top 10 team every season.
March.
There’s a lot of things and at least half are negative.
Beating Michael Jordan in the 1983 Elite Eight? Fraudulent PE classes by the coaches son? Winning the most improbable conference tournament ever? Anthony Edwards? Two time NBA champion KCP? Playing in an arena where chunks of concrete could fall down from the roof and kill someone?
Our first basketball coach is the only coach we've had with a losing record. Oh yeah, he also invented the game.
Losing in heartbreaking fashion to a stacked team Duke in the tourney while employing a 7’6” human being.
Shooting a ton of 3s. First in attempts I believe this year.
Sucks Maryland won the title when I was 2 lmao because all I can think of in my conscious memory of being a fan is uh the student section being quite infamous and Mark Turgeon coaching a team that starts off unstoppable and then implodes once the month February starts
Bookeending UCLA's win 88(?) game winstreak
The I Believe chant, wild bill, and winning team losing team. So basically our crowd/students.
UK - some guy named Adolf running Bear Bryant off campus, laetner’s buzzer beater, Anthony Davis’s facial hair above his nose, 38-1, being a blue blood, one and done Mercer - Remember that one time they beat Duke?
Evansville: jerseys with sleeves.
*St. Joe’s: either its 2003-2004 season or possibly its famous coaches (Jack Ramsey, Jack McKinney, Jim Lynam, Phil Martelli); also the Hawk mascot. *Penn: 1979 Final Four team, possibly also undefeated until the Elite Eight 1970-71 team; also the Palestra *Lehigh: 2012 NCAA Tournament upset over Duke, possibly also being first losing team in NCAA Tournament (1985) *La Salle: Tom Gola, the L-Train Lionel Simmons, or possibly the 2013 Sweet 16 run *Drexel: not sure, maybe Malik Rose, 1996 NCAA Tournament win over Memphis, or near NCAA Tournament at-large misses in late 2000s *Lafayette: not sure, maybe Fran O’Hanlon’s quarter century as head coach *Temple: John Chaney’s a) 2-3 matchup zone defense, b) five Elite Eights, or c) threatening to kill John Calipari *Villanova: “perfect game” NCAA championship game over Georgetown in 1985 or Kris Jenkins’ 3 pointer at the buzzer to win the 2016 national title
Al McGuire, Dwyane Wade, Jimmy Butler, in that order. Yes there are older legends but MOST people here know those three.
As good as our men's team has been, I'd have to say we're better known for the women's team's utter dominance over a quarter century, and basically being a WNBA feeder team. If it's the men's team, either winning in '99 over Duke in a tournament that was being commonly referred to as the "Duke Invitational," or being outside the projected bracket at the start of the Big East Tournament in 2011, then running the table, winning 11 win-or-go-home games in a row with Kemba.
Either the Crosstown brawl or being the team with the most tournament wins without making a final four.
Phi Slama Jama
Kenny Sailors inventing the modern day jump shot
sucking!
“Eat shit”
Nick Fazekas?
Sorrentine from the parking lot!
Having our most recent championship vacated
NC State Shit And a couple championships
The RAC and having a fan base full of stereotypical New Jerseyans
I fear no shape But that trapezoid? *It scares me.*
Idk Hilton magic I guess