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It doesn’t get much worse than this.
During Tuesday night’s college basketball match up between North Texas and East Carolina, the clock struck zero with the Mean Green up 69-57 over the Pirates, seemingly locking in a win for Under bettors, falling short of the 128.5-point total.
But the game wasn’t quite over there.
Instead of letting the clock run out, the referees added a half-second to the clock, calling a 24-second violation on North Texas and giving East Carolina one last possession even with the game completely out of hand.
Then disaster struck for the Under takes – and a miracle came for those who were on the Over.
With just half a second left, Pirates guard RJ Felton chucked a ball from beyond half court that somehow went in, pushing the total over 128.5 by a half-point with a final score of 69-60.
College basketball die-hards immediately took to social media to rant about the massive swing on the total.
“Hey @notthefakeSVP I’ve found the WORST bad beat of all time,” Nic Costello wrote, referencing Scott Van Pelt’s legendary Bad Beats “SportsCenter” segment, wrote on X.
“Oh no,” another X user wrote. “That is definitely up there on the all-time list.”
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Some questioned whether Felton truly got the shot off in a half-second.
“Also no way he got that full shot off in 0.5 seconds,” @Demps9990 wrote.
North Texas covered the spread as three-point favorites in the game regardless of the 3-point prayer by East Carolina.
The East Carolina Pirates blew a six-point lead to the Mean Green, being outscored by 15 in the second half and helping North Teaxs improve to 12-4 on the season.
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