Watch: High School Hoops Coach, Vandy Legend Hits Record Shot

NASHVILLE, TN -- Vanderbilt University fans no doubt have plenty of memories of Drew Maddux nailing some big shots for the Commodores when he wore the black and gold. A certified SEC Legend, Maddux is Vandy's seventh all-time leading scorer and is in the top 10 all-time in assists, three-pointers and shooting and still holds the Commodore career steals mark. He was All-SEC in 1998.

Perhaps the most memorable shot Maddux - a rare third-generation Commodore, as both his grandfather Ed and dad Ray donned the black and gold - made in his college days kept a record alive, as he hit the 'Dores lone three-pointer - what he told Bill Traughber was a 25-foot "miracle" - in the final minute of a game against Florida. Vandy, along with UNLV and Princeton, had - and still has - hit a three in every game since the rule came to college hoops in 1986 and the team's never come closer to ending what is known on West End as The Streak than they did the day Maddux saved their bacon in Gainesville.

But if that 25-footer was a miracle, there may be no words for what he did this week.

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Maddux is currently the head boys basketball coach at Nashville's Christ Presbyterian Academy and considered one of the state's top coaches. He's also become something of a trick shot artist, having once hit a shot from the roof of the Omni Hotel in Nashville and another from through a second floor window of his home.

Both impressive. Neither records.

But, as the coach wrote on Facebook, he saw a video recently that got him thinking.

"When I saw the Harlem Globetrotters posted a video of the world record for longest backward basketball shot ever made ... I told myself 'I can do that' and what better time and place than one (of) our Nike Basketball Camps in Tennessee. I could share that moment with so many people that all need to know they have exactly what it takes within their being to do whatever it is in front of them," he wrote.

That Globetrotters record was 82 feet, two inches.

Maddux tried from 84, just ten feet inside the far baseline.

And sure as shooting, he swished it, that famous smile bursting across his face, his arms triumphantly shooting into the air.

It's a sight Vandy fans remember from more than 20 years ago and a sight none of the kids at the camp will ever forget.

Photo: Drew Maddux brings the ball up the floor in a 1997 game against Ole Miss/Photo by Andy Lyons for Allsport via Getty Images