Following the regular season , Lehigh won the Patriot League Basketball Tournament to earn the conference 's automatic bid into the 2012 NCAA Tournament . This was their fifth NCAA Tournament appearance with their last coming in 2010 . As a 15 seed , they defeated 2 seed Duke in the second round , only the sixth time in NCAA Tournament history that a 15 seed defeated a 2 seed , though it was the second time of the 2012 tournament as 15 seed Norfolk State defeated 2 seed Missouri earlier the same day . This is the last time as of 2018 that a Patriot League team has won an NCAA tournament game . They fell to Xavier in the next round
Patriot League Basketball Tournament
2012 Patriot League Men's Basketball Tournament
2011–12 Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's basketball team