Bad Beat: A painful ending for Kentucky bettors
Before Scott Van Pelt makes an ESPN segment out of it, we should address how the final seconds played out and the significant impact it had on the Commonwealth’s economy. For bettors, Kentucky-South Carolina had a wild finish and it was the Kentucky backers (a lot of you) on the wrong side of the point spread in the end.
With Kentucky up 10 and time ticking away, all Oscar Tshiebwe needed to do was dunk home the cover as the clock expired. The line opened at 11.5 and closed at 10.5, so those two points decided the money.
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But he was too nice to do it. Oscar didn’t have the heart to run up the score. He passed up the free dunk because he wasn’t raised to show up his opponents.
It was so Oscar of him.
As you can see, Tshiebwe made a sudden turn back to dunk the ball but it was fractions of a second too late. A change of heart? Or did somebody tell him those two points mattered to a lot of people?
But Oscar’s not that guy, not like that ruthless savage at Arkansas.
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