Before tonight’s Kentucky-Mount St. Mary’s game, someone with more money than you or me placed a $220,000 bet at PointsBet Sportsbook. The bet? Kentucky -24.5 points, meaning the bettor needed Kentucky to win by 25 points or more to cash a $200,000 profit, a total payout of $420,000.
Knowing that, imagine the anxiety when walk-on Zan Payne stepped to the line with 42 seconds to go, Kentucky up 23. Payne hit the first, then the second to put the Cats up 25, but Mount St. Mary’s still had a chance to cut into that lead and keep the money in the house’s hands.