Was this team really 0-7 or is that a misprint?

Lucky you.

 

You must have a smart phone. It knew you needed to miss the game.

 

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.

 

It was more than that. Came out flat, continued flat and ended flat.

 

Lol you and I have very different definitions of 'all the time'... actually

 

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.

 

Not really, otherwise it wouldn’t be such a headline grabber when it happens.

 

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

 

happens all the time, and 19 times worse, and 1 tie..

 

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.

 

To put that in perspective, any chance you can find the number of college basketball games played?

 

A 16-seed that was less of an underdog by 2 points.

 

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?

 

And didn't win by 15 on Virginia's home court

 

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?

 

So you are saying that I just watched history? Woo-hoo!

 

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.