Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
The YouTube tagline says it all:
Milwaukee’s INSANE 24 point comeback against Wright State.
Anyone clicking on the video will see an implausible underdog story that’s normally found only in movies. Trailing, 72-48, and getting close to empty-the-bench time with only 6:15 on the clock, the Panthers rallied to force overtime and then pulled out a 94-92 win in the Horizon League quarterfinals Tuesday.
Of their last 17 possessions of regulation, only two ended in Raider stops.
They scored 33 points in that span, getting almost two points each time they had the ball. If they sustained that clip over 40 minutes, they’d have scored 211 points.
The Raiders (18-6) are ranked 24th in the country in defensive efficiency, allowing a mere .912 points per possession. They went into the tourney as regular-season co-champs and the clear favorite because they could win games with either their offense or defense.
But they ended up on the wrong side of what kenpom.com — a website run by analytics guru Ken Pomeroy — labeled the most improbable comeback in college basketball this season.
The second-most improbable comeback was also pulled off by the Panthers (10-11). Trailing by 14 with two minutes to go at Cleveland State, they forced OT by going on an offensive splurge, outscoring the Vikings, 21-7, over that stretch on the way to an 81-80 win.
