Gators Fans Guide to Norfolk State
Saturday, March 17, 2012 | Men's Basketball, Chris Harry
WHO ARE THESE GUYS?
A quick-read Gator fans guide to Norfolk State, which shocked third-ranked and second-seeded Missouri in Friday's West Region and will face Florida Sunday with the winner advancing to the Sweet 16.
LOCATION: Norfolk, Va.
FOUNDED: 1935
ENROLLMENT: 5,400 undergraduate; 835 postgraduate
COLORS: Green and gold
NICKNAME: Spartans
CONFERENCE: Mid-Eastern Athletic
COACH: Anthony Evans (5th season, 77-81)
2011-12 RECORD: 26-9, 13-3 in MEAC
NCAA HISTORY
All-time tournament appearances: 1
Record:1-0 
GREATEST PLAYER
Bobby Dandridge (pictured left) -- Second-round pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in 1969 and played alongside Lew Alcinder and Oscar Robertson when the Bucks won the franchise's only world championship in 1971. Starred later for the Washington Bullets, helping that franchise to its lone NBA championship and becoming the first player in league history to start for two title-winning teams. Four-time all-star who averaged 18 points per game. With Dandridge, the Spartans twice reached the NCAA Division II Tournament.
OTHER NOTABLE ALUMNI
Evelyn Fields -- Former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps Operations, the first woman and first African-American to hold he post.
Nathan McCall -- Former Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Washington Post reporter who authored best-selling book “Makes Me Wanna Holler.” 
Tim Reid (pictured right)-- Actor and comedian who starred as cool radio disc jockey “Venus Flytrap” in the popular sit-com “WKRP in Cincinnati.”
Randall Robinson -- Lawyer, author, activist and founder of TransAfrica
FUN FACT
Did not include Olympic sprint champion Steve Riddick on the above list. Riddick ran a leg of the United States' gold medal-winning 4x100 relay team at the 1976 Games in Montreal. In 2008, he was sentenced to five years in federal prison for his part in a money-laundering and counterfeit check fraud.
FUNNER FACT
The aforemention Dandridge, aka "Bobby D," had the NBA championship-clinching dunk with five seconds left to lock up the Bullets' title, a win in Game 7 over the Seattle SuperSonics in 1978. That game remains the last time a road team won Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
