Rasheed Bello and his shoe deserve a parade.
College basketball brings so much chaos to hoops fans everywhere, and it’s glorious. The upsets, the court-stormings and the trash talk are what makes the sport so great. But what about a shoe unraveling a whole team? That really happened.
On Wednesday, during a matchup between the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons and the University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles (yeah, those are real mascot names, too), guard Rasheed Bello of Purdue Fort Wayne blocked a shot with his shoe — HIS SHOE.
It is totally within the rules (as long as you don’t throw it), and Bello’s quick thinking paid off. The block was so vicious that the Screaming Eagles only scored a single field goal after that.
Unreal.
Rasheed Bello. The first player to ever record a block with a shoe? Send this shoe to Springfield, Mass.#FeelTheRumble #HLMBB pic.twitter.com/BF44qmdpPY
— Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons Basketball (@MastodonMBB) December 7, 2023
Blocked him with a… shoe? 🤣👟
(via @MastodonMBB)pic.twitter.com/jN0JpMMs8A
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) December 7, 2023
