From high school teams all the way to Michael Jordan, who wore his blue North Carolina shorts underneath his Chicago Bulls uniform for good luck, superstitions have always been an entertaining part of sports.

Baseball players are probably the most notorious for their superstitions: sleeping with a bat to end a hitting slump or spitting in their hand on the way to bat. But as the college basketball season comes around, players on the court can be found with some equally intriguing rituals.

Ohio State Buckeye’s forward, Matt Sylvester, who shot the winning three-pointer in the recent game against Louisiana State, might have had a little extra help, said Bob Baptist in a recent article in The Columbus Dispatch. When the senior took his clutch shot, he had tucked into his left sock a string of beads that a fellow OSU student had given him. The beads were thrown to fans at an OSU win last season against Illinois where Sylvester also shot a game winning three-pointer, ending Illinois’s winning streak.

As BYU-Idaho’s own winter sports seasons start up, surely players’ superstitions will begin too. Please though, for your roommate’s sake, wash your filthy socks!