{"id":1552,"date":"2009-03-05T14:07:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/best-march-madness-comebacks-against-the-spread\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:07:44","slug":"best-march-madness-comebacks-against-the-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/best-march-madness-comebacks-against-the-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Best March Madness Comebacks Against the Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the whole world watching, March Madness
\nbetting<\/a> produces moments that live on forever in sports lore, Among those
\nmoments are amazing comebacks \u2013 improbable rallies that have people saying \u201cOh
\nmy God, did you see the game?\u201d around the water cooler the next day. Let\u2019s
\ncheck out some of the most memorable comebacks in March Madness betting
\nhistory.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

WHEN: 2007 South regional matchup<\/o:p><\/p>\n

WHO: Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName>
\nState<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> over Xavier<\/o:p><\/p>\n

HOW: In one of the wildest March
\nMadness betting comebacks in recent memory, favorite Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName>
\nState<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> trailed by 11 points with
\njust over seven minutes to play. But the Buckeyes fought all the way back and
\ntied the game with Ron Lewis\u2019 buzzer-beating three-pointer before edging Xavier
\n78-71 in overtime.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

WHEN: 1989 Southeast Regional
\nmatchup<\/o:p><\/p>\n

WHO: South Alabama<\/st1:place>
\nover Alabama<\/st1:place><\/st1:State><\/o:p><\/p>\n

HOW: Imagine how much you\u2019d have
\nwon if you took a halftime sportsbook<\/a><\/span><\/u>
\nline on South Alabama<\/st1:place>, who trailed by 16 points? They
\nfought all the way back and won 86-84 thanks to a three-point dagger by Jeff
\nHodge with five seconds remaining.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

WHEN: 1983 Championship final<\/o:p><\/p>\n

WHO: North
\nCarolina<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>
\nover Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/o:p><\/p>\n

HOW: How often do online betting<\/a><\/span><\/u>
\nfans see a favorite blow a six-point lead with three minutes to go? It happened
\nin 1983, when NC State stole the championship from Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>
\nwith an improbable comeback capped by a wild Dereck<\/span> Whittenberg<\/span> shot that was caught and converted into an
\nalley oop<\/span> by Lorenzo Charles. NC State 54, Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>
\n52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the whole world watching, March Madness betting produces moments that live on forever in sports lore, Among those moments are amazing comebacks \u2013 improbable rallies that have people saying \u201cOh my God, did you see the game?\u201d around the water cooler the next day. Let\u2019s check out some of the most memorable comebacks in … Continue reading Best March Madness Comebacks Against the Spread<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}