The Big Dance got a little taste of that MAD OC FLAVOR last night when former area prep hoop star and current Lehigh University head men's basketball coach BRETT REED led his Mountain Hawks to a galactic upset of national superpower Duke in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

In his fifth year on the sidelines, Reed has taken Lehigh to two NCAA Tourney appearances and has won more games in his first five years than any coach in program history.

As a prepster, he was a standout point guard at Auburn Hills Oakland Christian, where he helped navigate the Lancers to a pair of league and district titles as well as a spot in the Elite 8 in 1989.

Reed played his college ball down in Florida at Eckerd University, sparking his squad to a league title as a senior.

Getting his start in the coaching profession in the mid-1990s as an assistant under his dad, legendary former OCC head coach Lynn Reed, who guided the Raiders to a National Championship in 1987, he slowly, but surely started moving his way up the ranks, paying his dues, until finally snagging the Lehigh head coaching gig in 2007.

Almost, if not, equally impressive as Reed's exploits in the world of basketball, is his accomplishments in the arena of academia. Back in 1998, he earned both a Masters' Degree and a PHD from Wayne State in Sports Education. Yeah, you read that correctly....my man BR can straight get his books on. Why don't we just start calling him 'Doc'.

Well, at the very least, Reed's a surgeon on the sidelines. Just ask Coach K and the Blue Devils!!