Western Carolina University

1995-96 Catamount Men’s Basketball Team
Western Carolina’s first men’s basketball team to advance to the NCAA Tournament after winning both the SoCon South Division and SoCon Tournament titles. The 1995-96 Catamounts overcame a slow start to the year to win 11 of its final 13 regular-season games and then swept through the conference tournament with wins over Appalachian State (74-66), VMI (97-93), and Davidson (69-60. Nearly became the first No. 16 seed in NCAA history to defeat a No. 1 seed, falling to Purdue, 73-71, in the NCAA West Region in Albuquerque, N.M. … Inducted in 2022