{"id":3670,"date":"2009-03-05T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-betting-best-spread-comebacks\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:03:00","slug":"march-madness-betting-best-spread-comebacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-madness-betting-best-spread-comebacks\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness Betting: Best Spread Comebacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the whole world watching, March Madness betting<\/a> produces moments that live on forever in sports lore, Among those moments are amazing comebacks \u2013 improbable rallies that have people saying “Oh my God, did you see the game?” around the water cooler the next day. Let’s check out some of the most memorable comebacks in March Madness betting history.<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

HOW: In one of the wildest March Madness betting comebacks in recent memory, favorite <\/span><\/font>Ohio<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> trailed by 11 points with just over seven minutes to play. But the Buckeyes fought all the way back and tied the game with Ron Lewis’ buzzer-beating three-pointer before edging Xavier 78-71 in overtime.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

WHEN: 1989 Southeast Regional matchup<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

WHO: <\/span><\/font>South Alabama<\/st1:place> over Alabama<\/st1:place><\/st1:State><\/o:p><\/p>\n

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

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

WHO: <\/span><\/font>North Carolina<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> over Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/o:p><\/p>\n

HOW: How often do online betting<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/u> fans see a favorite blow a six-point lead with three minutes to go? It happened in 1983, when NC State stole the championship from <\/span><\/font>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> with an improbable comeback capped by a wild Dereck<\/span> Whittenberg<\/span> shot that was caught and converted into an alley oop<\/span> by Lorenzo Charles. NC State 54, Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 52. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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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 “Oh my God, did you see the game?” around the water cooler the next day. Let’s check out some of the most memorable comebacks in … Continue reading March Madness Betting: Best Spread Comebacks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}