Worst Game of Their Lives

Every year, one underdog plays the game of their life and knocks off a highly rated team in the first round of the NCAA tournament. If you were to play the game 20 times, the favorite would surely win 19 of them. Yet if the underdog can catch them on that one magical day, they cna pull off an upset.

What made tonight's NCAA title game so amazing is not that the favorite won. No, what was amazing is how bad Butler was. Some teams wait their whole lives for that one game when they rise up and shock the world. But what happens when the opposite occurs? What happens when they play absolutely worst game of their lives? It happens to everyone, but on the biggest stage? That is just excruciating. I know a lot of people will kill Butler for how poorly they played (18.8% FG%, 57.1% FT%, 17 turnovers). "It was a fluke. They didn't deserve to be there" they will say. I am not one of them. This team belonged, but they collectively played the worst game of their life. I can only imagine that there was a lot teary eyes after the game. That might have been their last shot.