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The University of Chicago has long been one of the country’s great academic incubators, most famously around economics. Big brains associated with the school have collected 101 Nobel Prizes - a tally that ranks behind only those nerdbots at Harvard and Berkeley.

As far as athletics, the University of Chicago’s signature moment may be abolishing football, which it did in 1939, despite having a Big Ten program once coached by gridiron savant Amos Alonzo Stagg, the godfather of innovations like the huddle and the Statue of Liberty play.

It’s been a while since the Maroons from the South Side have had a showy run like the one now happening in men’s basketball.