For the first time, a former Indiana University basketball player competed in the NBA's dunk contest that is a part of the All-Star weekend.

Former IU All-American guard Victor Oladipo was one of four participants in this year's dunk contest. The dunk contest is the final of four events in the All-Star Saturday Night event that begins at 8:30 p.m. Eastern on TNT.

(NOTE: Dunk contest results below)

Oladipo, in his second year in the NBA with the Orlando Magic, is joined in the dunk contest by Zach LaVine of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Mason Plumlee of the New Jersey Nets.

This year, the NBA will use a previous format for the dunk contest: There is no time limit and players have a maximum of three attempts to complete a dunk in both the first round and the final round. Five judges score the dunks on a scale of 6-10.

All four players get two dunks in the first round, and the two players with the highest score advance to the final round. The player with the highest combined score for his two dunks in the final round wins the dunk contest.

In the NBA's Rising Stars game Friday night that includes rookies and second-year players, Oladipo had 22 points, three rebounds, four assists and three steals.

Oladipo and LaVine led the U.S. team in scoring in the game, which the international squad won 121-112 in a typical all-star type showcase event full of highlights and entertaining plays but not the defense of an actual game that counts in the standings.

Former IU teammate Cody Zeller, a forward in his second year with the Charlotte Hornets, had 12 points, four rebounds, one assist and one steal.

Oladipo and Zeller were two of the 10 players on the U.S. squad in the game.

"I think that's fantastic. It's fantastic for Indiana. It's fantastic for them, for their families. It says a lot about the way they've developed in that league, but I don't think any of us are surprised," IU coach Tom Crean said today.

"All-Star games and those events, dunk contests and 3-point shootouts, those are nice things and those are individualistic things. But they don't bring in people to those things that aren't going to draw some attention.

"We're proud of those guys. Ever since the first, second year Dwayne Wade was in the NBA and made the All-Star team, you're always proud of those type of things.

"I coached Wes Matthews for three years. He's in the 3-point shootout. You're proud when those guys get a chance to do something on a personal level, but the bottom line is, they wouldn't be in those situations if they weren't doing something on a team level."

With Wade in the All-Star game, Oladipo and Zeller in the Rising Stars game, Matthews in the 3-point contest and Oladipo in the dunk contest, Crean joins Duke's Mike Krzyzewski as the only two college coaches with former players in four events at the 2015 NBA All-Star weekend.

Tonight's State Farm All-Star Saturday night begins at 8:30 p.m. Here is the order of events:

Degree Shooting Stars

Taco Bell Skills Challenge

Foot Locker Three-point Contest

Sprite Slam Dunk

The NBA dunk contest began in 1984. The slam dunk contest appeared in the ABA in 1976. At halftime of the ABA All-Star game that year, Julius Erving beat David Thompson to win that dunk contest.

Here is a list of former winners since the dunk contest became a part of the NBA's All-Star weekend (no dunk contest held in 1998, no All-Star game in 1999 due to the lockout):

2014 - John Wall

2013 - Terrence Ross

2012 - Jeremy Evans

2011 - Blake Griffin

2010 - Nate Robinson

2009 - Nate Robinson

2008 - Dwight Howard

2007 - Gerald Green

2006 - Nate Robinson

2005 - Josh Smith

2004 - Fred Jones

2003 - Jason Richardson

2002 - Jason Richardson

2001 - Desmond Mason

2000 - Vince Carter

1997 - Kobe Bryant

1996 - Brent Barry

1995 - Harold Miner

1994 - Isaiah Rider

1993 - Harold Miner

1992 - Cedric Ceballos

1991 - Dee Brown

1990 - Dominique Wilkins

1989 - Kenny Walker

1988 - Michael Jordan

1987 - Michael Jordan

1986 - Spud Webb

1985 - Dominique Wilkins

1984 - Larry Nance

UPDATE: Oladipo finished second in the dunk contest to LaVine.

To start the contest, Oladipo made a spinning reverse dunk that he finished on the other side of the rim on his first dunk.

On his second dunk, he went down the baseline, jumped, did a 360 in the air and caught a pass of the backboard, but it went in a little soft.

Those dunks earned a total of 89 points, enough to get him to the finals against LaVine, who scored a perfect 100.

In the finals, Oladipo tried to throw the ball high in the air, jump, spin 360 and catch it one-handed for the dunk but never got it down. He then tried to dunk taking the ball off a teammate holding it up while sitting in a chair but couldn't get the dunk to go down.

Oladipo's final dunk was a pass off the backboard from behind the basket, but LaVine was putting on a show and out in front for the easy win.