We finally have the “winner” for the worst bad beat of the NCAA tournament.
Purdue closed as a 4.5-point underdog, and it looked like the Boilermakers were going to win outright to advance to the Final Four. But sharpshooter Ryan Cline missed a FT with 17 seconds left, which would have made it a two-possession game, to give No. 1-seeded Virginia one final shot.
Then, with a 70-67 lead over the Hoos with less than 10 seconds left in regulation, the Boilermakers smartly fouled up three. Ty Jerome went to the line, and just like Cline, he made the first but missed the second.