WATCH: The dramatic final minutes of the 1994 national finalMarch 19, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of Lebanon Valley's men's basketball national championship, to this day the only national title won by a Flying Dutchman squad.
The winter of 1993-94 was an unforgettable one in Central Pennsylvania as a basketball team from a little college (enrollment: 940) in a little town (population: 4,294) made an improbable run to the NCAA Division III national championship. Behind head coach Pat Flannery and captains John Harper and Mike Rhoades, LVC won the MAC championship and qualified for the NCAA Tournament. The Dutchmen first beat Johns Hopkins at home before heading down the road to Lancaster and Franklin & Marshall College for regional play. There, LVC beat UMass-Dartmouth, then made a second-half comeback to beat Amherst and make the Final Four.
Hundreds of Dutchmen faithful traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., to watch their team chase the title. In the national semifinal against favored Wittenberg, LVC erased a 14-point deficit with five minutes left to force overtime, then relied on Rhoades' 33 points and nine assists to win 93-83. That set up what would go down as one of the greatest championship games in college basketball history. Up against giant New York University (enrollment: 49,000), LVC was down in the final seconds but received a miraculous tip-in from Jason Say at the buzzer, then outscored NYU in overtime 11-4 to win the title, 66-59.
