Here Are The Most Insane Bets Gamblers Made On UMBC To Defeat Virginia Last Night

Last night, the UMBC Retrievers became the first 16 seed to beat a 1 seed in the history of the NCAA Tournament. As a 22.5 point underdog going into the game, UMBC also became the biggest upset in NCAA tourney history, a record previously held by Morfolk university.

Via Jimmy Traina

Biggest upset in tournament history was in 2012 when Norfolk St beat Missouri as 21.5 point underdogs. Virginia was -22.5 against UMBC tonight.

Despite being the biggest underdogs in the history of the tournament, several people laid out some money on the Retrievers and earned themselves a big pay day.

Check out this insane parlay of two underdog teams a lucky bettor made.

One dude made a $800 moneyline bet on UMBC at +2000 that paid him out over $16k

https://twitter.com/jsimbal/status/974859154861965312

One of the gamblers who put his money on UMBC had a pretty good reason to do so.

Via Covers.com

We’re in chatrooms with a bunch of guys who are sports handicappers. We go over plays every night,” McCulley told Covers while relaxing in a Venetian sportsbook booth late Friday night, shortly after the game ended. “When the bracket came out, we liked UMBC. We’ve been anti-Virginia winning the title since the beginning of the season, because of its style of basketball. It leaves no room for error. Virginia was going to have a rough time making it through the tournament.

On the other side of the coin, this poor bettor lost $20k trying to make $870 when he put all his money on the favorites.