Sometimes it’s impossible to figure out where and how something started. Maybe that’s not always important information. Sometimes we can just find amusement in the fact that someone somewhere started a basketball game tradition that continues to this day and brings a lot of entertainment along the way and that the Sports Yodha staff is completely dedicated to entertainment and basketball!

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However, we didn’t say that all of these traditions are necessarily “good.”

For example, during the starting line-up for the opposing team at the University of Houston, Cougar fans are immersed in reading copies of The Cougar Daily. As the opposing player’s name is announced, Cougar fans yell in unison, “Who’s that?” By the time the home team is introduced, the newspapers are torn to shreds. So when the Cougars take the field, confetti is thrown as the last player is introduced to the crowd. At the end of a winning game, Cougar fans jingle house keys and car keys as a message to the team to win. This jingling of keys is a message to the opposing team’s bus driver—get the bus moving and the losers can go home.

At John Brown University, hundreds of rolls of toilet paper flew out of the crowd for years. The moment the team scored the first 10 points, the stadium was filled with a mix of celebration and hours of cleaning. Despite the mess, the tradition somehow lasted for three decades before it was eventually banned. We wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the cleaning staff was the one who put a stop to the fun.

When the coach ordered the University of Maryland team to start the season by running a few laps around campus, a tradition was born. Called “Midnight Madness,” it began in the 1970s and has become an annual event for basketball fans. These days, “Midnight Madness” includes fireworks and a laser show while the team runs its rounds.

Does your school have a pre-game tradition or a special way to start the basketball season? Perhaps you can start a tradition with the neighborhood at your home court that includes a Goalrilla basketball goal. Maybe it’s time to create some fun ways to celebrate the team, the fans, and the game of basketball in your hometown!