--- title: Slam Dunk Brings Down Backboard at Central Michigan Basketball Game description: No one was injured canonical: https://time.com/3729119/slam-dunk-brings-down-backboard/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-02T20:59:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:18.649Z og:title: Watch an Epic Dunk Bring Down the Entire Hoop at a College Basketball Game og:description: No one was injured og:url: https://time.com/3729119/slam-dunk-brings-down-backboard/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch an Epic Dunk Bring Down the Entire Hoop at a College Basketball Game twitter:description: No one was injured twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch an Epic Dunk Bring Down the Entire Hoop at a College Basketball Game by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 2, 2015 8:59 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 2, 2015 8:59 PM UTC At a recent basketball game between Northern Illinois and Central Michigan, spectators saw something pretty rare: the entire hoop and the supporting structure came tumbling down. Northern Illinois’s Pete Rakocevic was barreling toward the hoop and sunk a two-handed dunk. The crowd cheered, but then the backboard began to fall just moments later. It nearly collapsed onto a Central Michigan player, who managed to move out of the way with just a second to spare. As CBS Sports [points out](http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25085796/watch-northern-illinois-f-brings-down-hoop-almost-injures-opponent), this could have caused some serious injuries. Luckily, everyone was okay. _Read next:_ [_This Is the Most Insane Basketball Shot You’ll See All Season_](http://time.com/3663803/trevor-booker-tip-shot-basketball/) Slam Dunk Brings Down Backboard at Central Michigan Basketball Game ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3729119/slam-dunk-brings-down-backboard/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3729119/slam-dunk-brings-down-backboard/"},"headline":"Watch an Epic Dunk Bring Down the Entire Hoop at a College Basketball Game","datePublished":"2015-03-02T20:59:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:18.649Z","description":"No one was injured","url":"https://time.com/3729119/slam-dunk-brings-down-backboard/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3729119/slam-dunk-brings-down-backboard/","name":"Watch an Epic Dunk Bring Down the Entire Hoop at a College Basketball Game"}}]}] ```