Disaster Averted

Syracuse almost suffered one of the worst defeats in school history until Eric Devendorf and a missed front end of a 1-and-1 saved their sorry asses.
SU dominated the first half of the game to point where I called Bill and asked him to hire a hearse because “Terrence Roberts be killing em.”
Roberts had 16 points in the first half on a number of dunks and follows.
Watkins had 8 blocks and SU led by as many as 19.
Cincinnati closed the lead but couldn’t get much closer than 11, and that’s where it stood with 7 minutes to go.
Then SU kept missing shot after shot (and getting the offensive rebounds) and turning it over. Cincy scored 7 straight points to cut it to 1.
Then Devendorf (by the far the best and gutsiest player on the team) hit a 3 (which was immediately answered) and two free throws to go back up by 3.
More missed shots, more turnovers and a bad 3 point attempt by Nichols trying to be the hero, gave Cincy the ball back and Sikes hit his 8th three of the game to put Cincy up by 2.
That’s when I texted Bill saying this was the worst loss in school history. Not sure if he had turned the game off because he seemed surprised when he texted back “we lost?”
Thanks to two missed free throws by Cincinnati - the first would have made it a four point game, the second on the front of a 1-and-1 – and four makes by Nichols and Devendorf, SU regained the lead and held on for a much closer than it should have been victory.