LOS ANGELES — It didn’t take long for Armando Bacot’s DMs to fill up after he helped North Carolina past Michigan State last week.
You’d think that, since he led the Tar Heels into the Sweet 16, fans would have been happy with him. Instead, it was the exact opposite.
“I guess I didn’t hit the over,” Bacot said Wednesday at Crypto.com Arena. “I got over probably 100 DMs from people just telling me like, ‘You suck, you didn’t hit the over!’
“I get it because you come so close to something and you lose it, but at the same time, you’re gambling.