Posted on 03/21/2016 1:28:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
On Friday night, Northern Iowa’s Paul Jesperson made a shot that nobody ever makes to send his team to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Two days after the Panthers sunk that miracle buzzer-beater from half-court, Northern Iowa got sunk by the greatest-slash-most-horrifying comeback in the history of March Madness —and probably in the history of college basketball. The only consolation for the Panthers: The game was on truTV, so a total of eight people probably saw it happen.
With 44.3 seconds to go in the second half, Northern Iowa’s Jeremy Morgan made two free throws to give the Panthers a 69-57 lead over Texas A&M. With 36 seconds remaining, the Aggies’ Alex Caruso missed a three-pointer.
By this point, Seth Davis had uncapped his Sharpie, and the FiveThirtyEight game probability game calculator gave Northern Iowa a greater than 99 percent chance to win.
But then the Aggies started to make like Bernie Sanders in Michigan.
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A bunch of other weird stuff happened in overtime and double overtime, including Northern Iowa’s Jesperson taking and missing another potential half-court buzzer-beater in an attempt to become the college basketball equivalent of Johnny Vander Meer. But after a bunch of made and missed shots and other normal-ish things that tend to happen in basketball games, Texas A&M won 92-88. Commence mocking Seth Davis.
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Arkansas Beats LOUISVILLE.....(in Austin TX)
And there was no 3-point shot back then!!
Every one needs a break from the daily madness.
Apparently No. Iowa’s regular inbound passer was injured, and looks like the others hadn’t practiced enough.
Virginia doesn’t deserve their easy bracket.
I would rather see Villanova vs. Virginia than have them face Kansas.
Work your Chix bracket.
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