It’s been a minute.

A decade-long streak of basketball futility was finally snapped on Sunday when the Georgia Bulldogs punched their ticket to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament for the first time since 2015. Georgia finished the season 20-11 overall and 8-10 in the SEC, and is now poised to take on Gonzaga in the first round on Thursday.

But before Georgia gets its first taste of March Madness in 10 years, it’s worth a look back at the last group who made the big dance sporting the ‘G’. A lot has changed since then, after all. Barack Obama was in office, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk!” was the No. 1 song in the country and America’s newest technological marvel, the iPhone 6s, was just months away from release.

That year’s team was led by former head coach Mark Fox, who helmed Georgia from 2009-18 and is now an assistant coach for Kentucky. Fox was something of an old-school coach for Georgia, often running slow-paced offensive sets and being physical on the defensive end. His tenure was marked by underwhelming recruiting, but 2015’s team had freshman center Yante Maten, who, after playing sparingly in his first season, went on to star at Georgia and was named AP SEC Player of the Year in 2018.

The Bulldogs finished the 2015 season 21-12 overall and 11-7 in the SEC, advancing to the semifinals of the SEC tournament before losing to Auburn. They earned a No. 10 seed in the East region and a matchup with No. 7 seed Michigan State in the first round.

Senior forward Marcus Thornton was Georgia’s most productive player, averaging a team-high 12.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Thornton was a second-team All-SEC and All-SEC Defensive team selection in 2015. As a team, Georgia averaged the second-most total rebounds in the SEC with 38.2 per game.

Junior guards Charles Mann and Kenny Gaines were also major contributors. Gaines averaged 11.7 points per game and shot 36.8% from 3-point range, while Mann averaged 11.2 points and a team-leading 3.6 assists. Sharpshooting combo guard JJ Frazier started 16 of 32 games and shot a team-high 39.4% from downtown on an average of four 3-point attempts per game.

Senior stretch forward Nemanja Đurišić was a versatile piece for Georgia, averaging 11 points, just over five rebounds and shooting 34% from 3-point range. Maten, in just 18 minutes per game, showed flashes of the defensive anchor he would eventually become with a team-high 1.4 blocks per game.

While Georgia was an upstart looking for its first NCAA tournament win since 2002, it ran into a completely different kind of program in the first round. Legendary head coach Tom Izzo and his Michigan State team had just lost to UConn in the Elite Eight the year before, and the Spartans had every intention of making another run.

Georgia hung around for most of the first half, but an 8-0 Spartans run just before halftime put Michigan State up 35-22 at the break. The Bulldogs fought hard in the second half but couldn’t keep up with a high-powered Spartans offense. Georgia cut Michigan State’s double-digit lead to just three with 21 seconds left after a late rally, but some free throws from future NBA player Denzel Valentine put out the fire and sealed the 70-63 win for Michigan State.

Mann and Gaines led the way for Georgia with 19 and 15 points, respectively, while Thornton recorded a double-double with 12 points and 10 boards. Valentine led Michigan State in scoring with 16 points while future NBA guard Bryn Forbes added 14 points off the bench.

“I’m really proud of our team for keeping the fight until the end,” Fox said after the game. “We turned the ball over too much early, and I was never very comfortable with how we were defending in this game. But Michigan State is a very good basketball team and we wish them well. They certainly earned the win.”

The Spartans went on to advance to the Final Four that season before losing to eventual national champion Duke.

Georgia drew another storied program this year on Selection Sunday, with the team set to play Gonzaga in the first round on Thursday in Wichita, Kansas. Georgia is searching for its first win in the big dance in over two decades.