Elite Eight
Carsen Edwards, as we alluded earlier, made it a bit farther at teammate Grant Williams expense in 2019 with the Purdue Boilermakers. But only to the Elite Eight, one of two current Celtics to meet their match in this round.
The Boilermakers fell to eventual champion Virginia 80-75 despite an absurd 42 points from Edwards in his final and deepest NCAA run (his Purdue teams made the Sweet Sixteen in both of the prior two seasons).
The other player on Boston’s roster that made it this far is then-Pitt Panther Brad Wanamaker, in 2009. Though Wanamaker would make multi-game runs in 2008, 2010 and 2011, ’09 was by far Pitt’s best showing during his tenure, only stopped by Villanova 78-76.
Wanamaker, ironically from Philadelphia, would score just 5 points in the loss.