Holy cow. What in God’s green earth happened? Like for real. I had an alarm set thinking this game started at 8 and then I wake up from a nap, look at my phone and it shows the final score.
Came out flat and they came out on fire. It happens all the time, actually, but we fans seem to think it only happens to our team.
Serious underdogs beat heavily favored teams all the time. You can parse every nuance to make it more rare if you'd like but that doesn't really matter.
This is now tied for the 20th worst loss against the spread in college basketball history with 1 other game. I'm guessing very few of those other games missed the spread by this much.
It's actually the first time EVER that we've lost to a team in that conference. And it wasn't even close. No, it doesn't happen all the time. It has happened once. Tonight
A bad loss is a bad loss. UVA was a 1 seed that lost to a 16 seed and they won the title the next year. It doesn't matter in the grand scheme. Let's see how we rebound and play the rest of the season.
Ah, good point! The numbers I found here show that 20 point underdogs win literally less than 1% of the time. Can you help me find the data they're missing?
What is your argument with me, good Sir? Would you like to pick nits over some detail I'm not interested in for the entire night?
As far as I can tell, there have been 2,388 games in which the line was 22.5 or greater. The favorite in those games is now 2,367-21.
Well this game was the rebound game after a shellacking. We needed to show some life here and we didn’t.
