The worst college basketball game was so historically awful, a ranked team scored just 24 points
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- Do you ever forget where you put your keys? Or the name of a friend-of-a-friend? What about how to play a game that you've been practicing, thinking about, living and breathing for your entire life? That's what happened in February 2019, when Virginia Tech and N.C. State played each other in a game that was supposed to be basketball but rarely resembled the sport. Both teams were ranked, both teams were great shooters, and yet they combined for a game so terrible that it was a complete blowout EVEN WITH the winning side only scoring 47 points. Woof.
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I was there. It was even worse in person. Best line by a fan I heard: “look, this game is so bad their moms are leaving!” 😂😂😂
Meredith Horne 😂
I was there too!
Dude no way I was there too, I think we all were
[Ring... Ring]
"Hello?"
"Hi mom!"
"Excuse me?"
"This is Matt."
"Who?"
"Matt... your son."
"You have the wrong number."
"Mom, it's me. Your son!"
"I have no son."
[Click]
@@TheSBleeder yooooooo 😂
ah, i remember my first game of 2K
Yung Poon So true
What the final score
But you were probably using 6 minutes quarters, right?
@Yung Poon This was me playing Hawks vs Blazers back in NBA Live 2005
In real life they were two of the worst offenses in the league that year and both combined to win just 40 games that whole season...
@@JWex-jy7sk oh, thats sad.
"47 to 24, yes this is a real basketball score"
Me: nah b, this is a football score.
yoo ur right. i looked it up
47-24 Seahawks v Browns 1978
Or maybe a really fun hockey game
Me: Nah girls basketball score
Man my stepsister just played a game. 47 to 24. I'm about to die
I love how this comment still makes sense whether you mean American football or the rest of the world football
Imagine going to a basketball game and getting a hockey score after 7 minutes
I was there for my dad's birthday, State is his alma Madder. My wife is a Tech fan. It honestly was hilarious
@@leevenable8628 alma madder?
@@bonjourphoenix7487 alma mater
"Someone was open but he was in the third row."
And he was wearing a jersey!
Onyx lol
That was hilarious. That pass omg.. I think it landed in the 7th row..
Do I like or not? I mean, it’s at 999.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They got their talents sucked into a basketball to be used by the Monstars in Space Jam 3
There was a two?
What happen to #2?
Nobody watched Space Jam 2, it was that bad.
Space Jam 3 is basically Half Life 3. But it has no 2 because of Carbon dating.
Space Jam 2 is going to star LeBron, apparently.
"It's called basketball! Let's play it!"
lmao
Friend, this is not basketball. This is something darker, more sinister.
It’s not football idiot
i’ve seen a 3rd grade basketball games with a higher score
i have been in a game with a higher score
I've played middle school recess basketball with higher scores
I’ve played a first to 21 game and it was higher scoring
@@joepoe3654 lolololololol
They could have put in the Lady Wolfpack and they would have scored more points.
"Someone was open, but he was in the 3rd row!" lmaooo 😂😂
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
He Saw OJ Beckham wide open down field.
@@daddygreen9399 oj simpson beckham jr is who he's talking about dumbass
@@daddygreen9399 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Overused line but still that was perfect
Then they scored 96 points against UNC the next game. Craziness. We're all convinced something was off with the goals or the balls or the lighting. Something.
They were saving up their points!
They installed carnival rims onto the backboards
bro the rim looks off lol
And still lost
@@michaellyles6741
Yes.. they certainly did.
I'm a State fan (sigh) and they just refused to play defense in '18/'19
Duke played NCSU in the next game and the Duke crowd gave an ovation when NCSU hit 24 points
In the 1968 ACC Tournament, NC State beat Dook 12-10.
I was the sports editor for my college paper when I had to cover a game against Caltech. Final score 79-9. Caltech scored 2 in the second half.
eauhomme I lived by Redlands which was in the same conference as Caltech (SCIAC) and I remember they had a conference losing streak that ended in 2006 or something close to that that had begun in the 1980’s lmao poor beavers
Who did caltech play
In 1977! Damn u old!
What is in 1977? Caltech last played a SCIAC football game in 1977 but they have always had a basketball team.
eauhomme I searched 79 - 9 cal tech and it said it was in 1977
The worst game of all time was Duke and NC State in the 1968 ACC tournament. They played to a 12 to 10 final score. One guy apparently just held the ball for 13 minutes straight before passing...
Or Tennessee defeating Temple 11-6 in 1973. Don Casey, who would later go on to coach the Clippers and Nets, had his Temple team pass the ball back and forth at halfcourt in the championship game of the Volunteer Classic. Tennessee stayed in a zone as both teams refused to change their strategy.
Was there no shot clock? Why didn't someone on the other team just foul him?
Greg B shot clock didn’t come in until 1986, which is actually quoted in the video
@@galinda91 Ya, we can thank Dean Smith for that.
yeah the shot clock was a nice addition for college basketball.
I’m glad I wasn’t at that practice the next day lmao.
That would have been a no balls practice for sure.
😂
@@bgilley8199 see thats what doesn't make sense... ur team was missing a bunch of open shots all game, and the coaches response, make them run all practice instead of shooting drills... logical
@@tonysopranooo1 hey I never claimed no balls practices are logical, they're strictly punishment, and in my opinion they're counterproductive most of the time. Logically shooting drills and running through the offense would probably be the thing to do after a dismal offensive performance.
b gilley rip kobe
Coaches for both teams: “Everybody to the line!”
I'm a junior at NC State, I almost went to this game but had a big project to work on and had to skip it... Let's say I'm pretty grateful for that project
How’d u like Nc state? Thinking about going
cap. i guarantee you’re bummed out that you missed a chance to witness history.
Even if this was a football game, it wouldn’t be scorigami. That’s how bad this game was.
It’s probably a basketball scorigami 🥴😂
7:50 Guess who’s back? Back again? BOIS IS BACK. TELL A FRIEND
*Wookiee
Did you miss his sad punt one?
We've created a monster, no one wants to see SB Nation anymore. They want Bois, he's chopped liver.
Well if you want Bois, this is what we’ll give ya, a lil Jon mixed with some hard liquor.
Mr. Gentlezombie accidentally erased the 2nd e earlier today. Glad you noticed
correction: NC State had beat a ranked team prior to this game. They beat 7th ranked Auburn in the early season.
They were probably counting the current rankings at the time of the game. Because that week, Auburn had dropped out of the rankings.
Damn you think with all the research he did for this vid he should’ve figured out how to say Raleigh
boy, this football game was fun!
Super Bowl 52: 41-33 - combined 74 points
This game: 47-24 - combined 71 points
Hey at least it wasn’t soccer.
gmwdim the highest scoring soccer game was 149-0. Sure they were own goals in protest but they were still goals
2018 and 2019: the year basketball and football switched places.
*Bois
NC State fan here.....I consider scoring only 24 points in a game as art....you couldn't do that again if you tried!
As a Tech fan I’ll let you know the game wasn’t any more fun to watch for me either
And you wouldn't want to either.
As an NC State fan, I do not believe Kevin Robinson is a real NC State fan and he is just trying to make us look bad.
I guess you are just a fan of teams that choke
my law alma mater, Saint Louis, dropped a solid still-a-record 20 points against George Washington. 7 in a half. 7-48 shooting (missed 23 in a row at one point), 1-19 from three. That's a work of art!
Watching some of those possessions, with dudes missing 3, 4, 5, etc.. times in a row. Makes me wonder if the hoops were like an inch off, gambling influence, or just.. something. It makes no sense these guys all just starting missing when they are normally good. If it was an average or bad team, it'd make more sense.
Had to be magic tbh. Like most of those missed shots are short floaters or putbacks
it's crazy that this is the same team, under the same hc, that is now in the final 4
also, this is a pet peeve of mine, raleigh is pronounced like wall-e, not rally
YUP
Very easy road for Purdue hahahaha
I love how this game happened this year and everyone is already in agreement that this is the worst game of all time
@Duck bruh it wasnt even close to the worst game of all-time...
narrator: “the type of game so stupefyingly bad, so antithetical to the very platonic ideal of basketball itself”
me: “what”
In simpler terms: A game so terrible, you can barely even call it basketball.
Basketball the way it is not meant to be played and indeed played with nearly perfect awfulness.
I’m pretty sure he understood what he said he was just pointing out the unnecessary use of words.
@@fryPS You have no poetry in your soul.
Matthew Reynolds Yes I do
The Oregon State - Loyola Chicago game of March 27th, 2021, gave this game a run for its money. I was on the edge of my seat as the first half ended at 24 to 16.
that game just had good defense I think
That was a MARCH madness game simply involving spectacular defense. As well as kids being in the bright spot they had never been before. You cant count that game. This is a normal game or normal magnitutde.
Currently watching Illinois at Wisconsin. 20-16 at halftime
As soon as I heard “someone was open, but they were in the third row”, I hit the comments
As a North Carolinian, the way you say Raleigh bothers me to no end
Bro I live in Raleigh so it's pissing me off so much
I'm not from North Carolina, and have never been there, but it bugged me, too. Meanwhile, when the narrator attends a baseball game, he probably puts on his "rahlee cap."
@@foottv798 me too bro
me too man
same here
5:48 - “It’s called Basketball, Let’s Play it “ !! 🤣🤣
That fan is literally me during the tournament (specifically the Duke vs UCF game) Oh boy that was crazy.
Crazy that this showed up in my feed after the same NC state coach just make the final four and Luka scored more points in an nba game than these two teams combined
This video game should be called “The worst pronunciation of Raleigh was so historically awful”
Rally, North Carolina
@@stevenhayes97 Raw-Lee, North Carolina
No kidding! I hear "rally"
@@thomaskendrick6766 he says it wrong in the video, I grew up in Raleigh, like I played high school ball against Bryce Love and Braxton Berrios, you could tell who the transplants were because they said it like rally. I think it's just a northern thing to pronounce it like that, cuz anyone that knows North Carolina would pronounce it like raw-lee.
@@EagleFan760 anyone who has ever heard of the place calls it Raw-lee lol
Super Bowl 52: 41-33 - combined 74 points
This game: 47-24 - combined 71 points
J. A. Greene they need to go ahead and fix the worst super bowl ever episode because that game this year stole the championship belt lol
J. A. Greene Super Bowl 53 10-3 13 combined points
TSB JGRIFF
*13-3
*16 points
Learn to read.
as a NC state fan, I am ashamed to be in this video.
Nathan Huse That’s rough. And y’all missed the tourney
@@JoBo0209 yep, from this video I can see why
This put you in the NIT
@The 64th Films never again
😂😂😂
Dude said “Rally” instead of Raleigh
Jaime A. Lmfaooo
And?
@@kylermckim It's not the correct pronunciation and it's a pretty poor attempt to actually pronounce it.
Hey Michael, you should've played in this game! Stanley and Dwight too. K maybe not Stanley
@@kylermckim it’s pronounced raw-lee.
I live there
Yea... I’m an NC State fan, and I was there. Eventually it all just became laughter and a few moments of “thank God I didn’t pay for these tickets!”
Good luck with your March Madness Bracket everyone !
Nick Young thanks swaggy p. Good luck with your shot going in and showboating!
Nick Young thanks man
Thanks Nick!
Nick Young Sign with the blazers
Thanks, u 2
Meanwhile on the very same day, in D3, Greenville defeated Fontbonne 200-146. Greenville led all levels of the NCAA averaging 135.1 points per game this season.
That's... PRETTY GOOD.
Has anyone playing that game heard of this thing called defense?
The spirit of Troy-DeVry lives on!
Greenville runs a variant of the Grinnell system, AKA The System. They don’t exactly follow all of the rules of the system but it’s pretty close. They should lead the country in scoring with The System.
@@JonathanAuburn I'm old enough to get that reference.
"It's called basketball! Let's play it!" Funniest thing I've heard this week.
those aliens from space jam are having a good time with their talent.
Its NCST and VT, what talent?
@@DR.K14 that Virginia tech team was good lol almost beat duke in March madness
@@DR.K14 NCSU first of all hater wym who’s your team jackwagon?
Even as a Duke fan, seeing an NC school in a The Worst episode hurts.
Tylersaurand yeah I'm from Charlotte and any school in the Carolinas I want them to win at anything (except Clemson)
UNC is better
You feel bad for a rival🤔 you sure you're a real Duke fan
The way he pronounced Raleigh hurt worse
I'm a state fan, this video makes me want to hang myself.
Next game NC state scores 96 pts (no OT)
Who's here after NC State made the final four.
This is like watching two bad middle school teams playing a “close” game of basketball.
"Nah man this was just a defensive masterpiece"- superbowl stans
@@iamjobu6101 Boom, checkmate, drop the mic 😂
@@iamjobu6101 gottem
@J Dee Carter you got roasted
I am Jobu 😂😂
@@iamjobu6101 damn
Maybe those hoops were like the ones at carnivals, where the ball never goes in.
I legit remember watching this at my uncle’s house (NC State fan) and being like “What are they doing?!?!!?”.
4:22 I thought everyone was so bored that the crowd decided to host an impromptu game of Where’s Waldo for the folks at home who might still be watching for some reason...
LOL, it actually looks like that.
I’m a freshman at NC State and my roommate is in the band and they always where those shirts for basketball 😂😂😂
I believe it might be the only guy not wearing the shirt.
Maybe he's trying to fool the immune system.
The year of our lord 2019?????
Noah Moelter Wait a minute...
We are all God's children and he has left us in a hot car.
Erdim Barbaros The joke was me “realizing” we should be dead now.
@@villageher0 r/whoosh
Rahhh
That's not a basketball score, that's shot totals from a midget hockey game
I know this video is 7 months old, but it’s “rah-Lee” not “rally”
That's what he said. Rally.
Is the second syllable stressed?
@@SP-qi8ur It's pronounced Ray-Lie. Doesn't matter which syllable you stress.
@Catharsis You can't have no stress on either syllable. Stress means saying RAW-lee or raw-LEE. Which do you think is the correct one?
@Catharsis I'm pretty sure my way is right.
Ladies and gentlemen, NCAA basketball has entered The Fumble Dimension.
That same NC St coach just made a run to the final 4 which to me is just as crazy
That NIU Eastern Michigan game sounds like some classic MACtion.
Cincinnati and Kentucky had an even worse game during the "four corners" days, December 20, 1983. Kentucky won comfortably, 24-11, but it was like a root canal because of the extreme stall ball. The Wildcats refused to play there again for many years because it showed bad faith on the part of UC, in their eyes.
WT Keeton I remember that game, UK coach was pissed, yep he was pissed because he was out coached.
I was a student at UC at the time
@@woxyroxme He was outcoached but his team still more than doubled the score on UC? lol.
Here after NC State made the final four
This was literally the basketball equivalent of the Rams vs Patriots at this years Superbowl
Yesss
What’s even crazier is that this game took place a day before Super Bowl LIII
Without the cheating
I think that should make it the worst Super Bowl ever played, neither team put up a performance, the halftime show was just as bad as the game!
Robert Ridley typa
As Homer Simpson said, "you tried and failed miserably; the lesson is... never try."
I was in the student section for this game, and I remember how bad it was to be there that day. Everyone was fuming in the stands. Thought it was pretty funny myself but I’m not a huge basketball fan; just went to support my school
Normally most of the bad games highlighted here was just great defense on display. But this.....this was terrible
LET'S GO HOKIES!
This was the funniest thing I had heard on the radio "The Hokies win by over 20, final score 47-24". I had to double take when I was waiting in the parking lot. Good lord, this must have been hard to watch, but good lord the point differential was even worse.
You guys need to do a video on the Alabama vs Minnesota game where the whole bench got ejected, and only three players remained after injury and fouls.
And Alabama actually outscored Minnesota 30-22 during the stretch they played 3 on 5!
I'm an NC State fan, and I freaking LOVE this game. It cannot be replicated. I ran the numbers on Sports-Reference, and since 2010-11, teams that score 47 points LOSE 99.7% of the time. And we lost by 23! :) Art.
And it's pronounced "Rah-lee." Not "Rally." :thumbsup
VT: Hey you wanna get on Shaqtin' a Fool?
NCSU: Yes.
But they were still #2 to javale mcgee
Fun fact NC State did beat a ranked Auburn team earlier in the season. The same Auburn team that won the SEC tournament.
And just blew out UNC to advance to elite 8
they weren't ranked when they beat them so and thats how they do those statistics
“Momma said there’ll be days like this.”
47-24 sounds like a Football Game
Illinois 33- Penn St 38 in 2009 has to be up there in the rank of terrible major college basketball games. It was aided by 4 FTs at the end of the game even. That game led me to go back to my frat house, drink McCormick's vodka and pass out before making out to the bars.
Rah-lee
Says it which your chest!
When he said Rally, I died a little inside.
ISo Authentic same
Right an expert can't even pronounce what he is talking about.
Guaranteed NC State Coach’s halftime speech went something like
“well I can guarantee we won’t shoot that bad in the second half” :/
"It's called basketball! Let's play it!"
LOL
and now this team is in the Final Four… crazy
This makes me suspect that there was some point shaving going on, but *both* teams were cheating.
Idk how two teams can both play this bad on purpose while showing enough effort that no real investigation ever comes out. This was someone in the crowd being punished by God in real time. Everyone else were just there to witness the punishment. The person being punished was whoever felt the least amount of satisfaction leaving the arena.
I remember that when I first saw the final score, I thought the website was accidentally showing the halftime score. I see that once in a while on the ESPN scores tab. 47-24? That was more like the final score of the games I played with my terrible 8th grade team.
2:22 playing on a double rim be like
In a Bball tournament in my 5th grade it was a 16 minute match / 4 min quarters and the final score was 40 - 36 which still tops this.
Bro you're talking about 5th grade, you expect anyone to play defense?
When i saw Jon Bois face i had to check to see if the video was a half hour long, but when i saw that there were only a minute left i got really disappointed so i just watch his bit for a half hour to make be feel better.
It was very sad to actually be at this game
"Someone was open but he's in the third row"
video recommended as they just made the final four 😂
This was also one of the last games on Raycom Sports, which over the last 30 years did football and basketball from the ACC, SEC, and Carolina Panthers preseason.
(Raycom was also known as Jefferson Pilot Sports, the ACC Network, and Lincoln Financial Sports, due to selling naming rights) However Raycom Sports has just come to an end following the end of the 2019 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament.
I didn't know Raycom Sports still existed, they used to do the broadcasts for the old Southwest Conference in the 80's and early 90's before the conference split up. Every guy over the age of 40 in Texas and Arkansas remembers Raycom while yelling at their 20 inch tv screens on Saturdays.
Joaquin Perez yep they actually just closed for good last week. The 2019 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament was their final broadcast. Cool to see them in an SB Nation video in their final season
Raycom Sports will always be missed, especially during their intros in the 90s when I would watch the now-defunct Tournament of Champions and a couple Michigan/Duke games on WCTI-12 (ABC in New Bern/Greenville/Jacksonville, NC area), as well as ACC Basketball later on that same network and WRAL-5 (formerly, CBS in Raleigh/Durham, NC)
Apparently this happened the same day Greenville University scored 200 POINTS against Fontbonne
And now we’re in the final four wtf lol
The first 7 minutes they had a hockey score going, too bad they didn't fight.
I always have an imagination on what it would be if a basketball game ends with a 0-0 score. No field goals made, no free throws were made, just lot of blocks and turnovers (and missed shots of course). This is the farthest it has ever came.
I was sure this was going to be about the 1983 Stall Game between Kentucky and University of Cincinnati, which ended with a score of 24-11.
This kinda looks like my 10 year old basketball games
This is probably the worst game because it was low scoring and non-competitive. But there was a semifinal game in the B1G tournament a few years back between Wisky (of course) and PSU. It ended 36-33. I was there and had watched OSU win the first semifinal so we stuck around naturally to watch this one. We left midway through the send half because we were bored to death. I think the score was something like 26-24 and we just couldn't take any more. As far as my team goes, I think the worst "score desert" game I witnessed was an early season game vs some nobody team. That team was so terrible shooting the ball I swear it impacted OSU. The halftime score was 30-6, and the final was 59-22. That team got to 22 by hitting a 3 pointer with less than 2 minutes to go. It was the fewest points OSU had given up in something like 70 years.
As a Wolf pack fan, I still have nightmares about this game.
who else was waiting for him to say that the rims were actually the ones from the carnival games
Glad this was not between NC State and "Louie-ville" in Rally, NC.When he said Rally, North Carolina, I had to stop and replay it to make sure I heard him correctly, really bad and I'm in South Carolina.
The space jam aliens were playing shenanigans that day
any college game in the 80's where the "four corners offense " was employed.
My cousin, who’s a huge State fan, went to this game 😂
0:38 - Where’s Waldo: NC State Edition
Its always funny seeing a band kid walking around campus and doing a double take until you remember that's just the uniform
I feel bad for NC STATE. I know Coach Jimmy V had to yelling in Heaven. RIP Coach V, sorry you had to see that. But I know that the Wolfpack will always remember your famous saying " Don't give up don't ever give up "
what about the 2011 big ten tournament game where Penn State beat Wisconsin 36-33
The fact that game was close while this one was a blowout despite having a lower score than most Big 12 football games is your reason. But 36-33... woof.
ive never seen that game, i just literally remember seeing the box score and being like, damn was that a football game.
Oh penn state had a similar score at Illinois in 2008. Our basketball program is a joke lol
When you play with against bots on rookie diffeculty
I found Waldo at least. He was hiding as the trumpet player in the NC State band during this game. Might’ve been his most clever hiding spot yet.
I've watched nearly every NC State game in the last 15 years, and I can tell you...we were not surprised that this could happen to us, especially after being ranked.