Backboard Busters

 
No Author Published: January 7, 2010   

Notable members of The Fraternity of Glass Shatterers:

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Tiny Gallon, Oklahoma
The freshman is the only player on this list to do it without touching the basketball. Gallon broke the glass on New Year’s Eve 2009 in Spokane, Wash., against Gonzaga while trying to regain his balance after being bumped on a failed alley-oop.

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Jason Keep, Oklahoma State
Cowboys forward did it in a newly renovated Gallagher-Iba Arena on a breakaway dunk in 2000.

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