Bad beats come in many forms, some more anticipated than others. As for the one that happened at the buzzer of Virginia’s game against Clemson on Tuesday, nobody could have seen that coming.
That’s because it happened at the buzzer — only it wasn’t the typical bad beat on a game-winning shot.
This bad beat involved a player’s rebounding prop, suggested hours earlier by Action Network analyst Sean Koerner on the Green Dot Daily! show. He predicted Virginia forward Ben Vander Plas would fall under 6.5 rebounds.
That pick was right up until the final tenth of a second when Vander Plas caught rebound No. 7 on a pointless half-court heave by Clemson.
.@The_Oddsmaker had Ben Vander Plas under 6.5 rebounds tonight
His 7th rebound came on this half court shot to end the game 🤮pic.twitter.com/J2NTWQohS5
— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) March 1, 2023
Koerner and everyone who tailed him felt that one in the gut.
What makes it worst is Vander Plas didn’t need to catch it. The clock still would have struck zero before the ball hit the ground had he let it go. But no player is passing on that opportunity to pad the ol’ stat sheet, so he caught it over the shoulder like a receiver in the end zone — almost like he knew the stakes of the rebound.
Koerner called it one of his worst beats.
Had to be one of my worst beats of all time 😂 https://t.co/rmL4RtgAgQ
— Sean Koerner (@The_Oddsmaker) March 1, 2023
Yeah, it’s pretty hard to top that.
