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A 17-point lead with three minutes to play ... bingo. That's a safe lead.
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I remember my HS basketball team cramming into a car after our own game to listen to Okla A&M (now Okla State) score 11 points in the final minute to beat Wyoming in the 1948 (?) NCAA tournament. This was post-Kurland, before the three point shot when final scores were typically in the 30s and 40s
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"My editor, doing his due diligence, found one game in which a team lost after holding a safe lead. On March 2, 1974, North Carolina trailed Duke, 86-78, with 17 seconds to play—a safe lead for Duke. Duke had repeated misadventures in in-bounding the basketball and wound up losing the game in overtime. That was before the human typo was hired to coach Duke, but ... does anybody know where I could get a tape of that game?"
bambam, do you remember this game?
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Originally posted by dj"My editor, doing his due diligence, found one game in which a team lost after holding a safe lead. On March 2, 1974, North Carolina trailed Duke, 86-78, with 17 seconds to play—a safe lead for Duke. Duke had repeated misadventures in in-bounding the basketball and wound up losing the game in overtime. That was before the human typo was hired to coach Duke, but ... does anybody know where I could get a tape of that game?"
bambam, do you remember this game?
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Compare these two results:
10 point lead with 0:40 left and team ahead does not have the ball: Yes, the lead is 100% safe.
Team behind makes 3 point shot.
7 point lead with 0:38 left and team ahead does have the ball: On the way, the lead is 53% safe.
Seems to be a wild swing there.
Not basketball, but one of the weirder come from behinds I watched on TV involved a Minnesota state high school hockey game (it may have been consolation round). One team was up 5-2. The team behind scored with 35, 18, and 3 seconds left (roughly) to tie the game. I think that they lost in overtime though.
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