A UMass pupil thought he received $10,000 throughout a halftime contest at a ladies’s basketball sport, solely to seek out out he wasn’t going to get the cash over a technicality.
UMass play-by-play announcer Josh Schreiber on 91.1 FM WMUA Sports activities posted on X that his pal, senior Noah Lee, had received a halftime competitors at Mullins Middle on Wednesday night time, which concerned hitting a layup, a free throw, a 3-pointer and a half-court shot in beneath 30 seconds.
The faculty pupil accomplished the duty — together with the spectacular half-court heave — and celebrated on the courtroom, solely to study the next day that his foot needed to keep behind the road on his shot.
As a result of it didn’t, he wouldn’t be getting the $10,000 prize.
Schreiber revealed the devastating twist in a follow-up publish on X that defined that “insurance coverage” had notified Lee that he wouldn’t be getting the cash.
Lee advised the Each day Collegian that he was a bit upset by the end result.
“[On Thursday], I received an e-mail from the UMass athletics consultant saying that the promotion firm received again to them and mentioned my foot was on the road and they won’t be paying it out, which is clearly slightly disappointing,” Lee mentioned.
“I might perceive if it was properly in entrance of the half courtroom line, took an additional step, however at worst, he’s very clearly AT half courtroom,” Schreiber advised WHDH in Boston. “It’s a tough factor to inform.”
UMass did supply some stuff to Noah for the unlucky flip of occasions with the competition.
The college provided the coed suite tickets to a males’s basketball sport of his selection for a loge suite that seats 4, an opportunity to take part in one other contest on the courtroom throughout halftime of the boys’s sport, a pair of courtside seats for the ladies’s basketball sport of his selection, a $100 present card for the concession stand at Mullins Middle and a “swag bag of UMass gear.”
“Actually grateful for the chance simply to take part,” Lee advised WHDH. “It was a extremely cool second. A extremely cool expertise.”
A spokesperson for the UMass ladies’s basketball workforce didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Publish relating to what transpired.
OddsOn Promotions didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Schreiber did try to make clear in a publish on X Thursday night time that UMass ladies’s basketball was not at fault.
“They’re one of the best, and had nothing to do with Noah not getting the cash,” he wrote. “Help ladies’s basketball and don’t assault them for this!!”