Hey Football, Hold My Beer! Saturday’s Best College Game Featured An Improbable Comeback…On A Basketball Court In Vermont

While most of the country was sipping on Georgia and Alabama in the SEC championship, a pair of college hoops teams from the northeast did their best to ensure fans would be walking away from Vermont's Patrick Gymnasium with a buzz.

On Saturday evening, the University of Vermont erased a five-point deficit to Yale with under four seconds to play. A free throw with .3 seconds remaining capped an improbable comeback, leaving Yale’s hoopers to join us in spending their Sunday with a headache, wondering where it all went wrong.

Albeit, for very different reasons.

Watch Saturday’s most improbable comeback in the tweeted video below:

Final score: Yale 65 - Vermont 66.

Georgia nor Louisville could never imagine such a sequence!

Vermont Did Everything But Cover

To recap, Vermont was down five with under four seconds to play. Layup, offensive foul, four-point play, ballgame. Junior guard TJ Long finished with the game's final four points, including a three-pointer in which he was fouled and the free throw that followed.

Everything had to bounce their way. And it did.

About the only thing the Catamounts weren't able to do is cover the spread. Sportsbooks across the country had UVM as between one and a half and two point favorites depending on the book.

The Vermont Catamounts did the improbable on Saturday night. (Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images).

"Well, how about them apples,"Vermont head coach John Becker said after the win. "I've never experienced anything like that in my career."

Vermont basketball, drink it up!

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