Any sports play so vicious it destroys equipment is automatically ill. In basketball, that means shattering the backboard (or in young Shaq's case, bringing down the entire backboard support). Everyone's seen the Darryl Dawkins and Darvin Ham jams that cracked glass, but here's one a few have forgotten. Defi, this one's for you.
Jerome Lane was an undersized forward for Pitt in the mid-80s - out of the same high school LeBron played at - who nonetheless led the Big East in rebounding his sophomore and junior seasons (including being the top rebounder in the country his sophomore year). He was drafted in the first round by Denver in 1988 after leaving school early and bounced around the League for five seasons.
But on Jan. 25, 1988, Providence came to town, and in one play, Jerome made college basketball history in a game Pitt fans remember to this day as "The Night The House Came Down."
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