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NCAA Tournament 2015: Quinn Cook's Last Free Throw Costs Bookies A Fortune

Can you imagine the wave of horror when they realized the very expensive implications of that very late whistle?

With one foul shot, Quinn Cook knocked out hundreds of thousands of potential profits for gambling firms.
With one foul shot, Quinn Cook knocked out hundreds of thousands of potential profits for gambling firms.
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You know that foul the officials called at the very end of the Utah game? The one where the clock was down to fractions of a second?

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Turns out that when Quinn Cook hit one of those free throws, he cost a lot of people an awful lot of money.  According to MGM vice president of race and sports Jay Rood "[I]t triggered a million-dollar swing with parlay liability, to the undesirable."

Well that depends on whose money it is, presumably.

No matter how you look at it, though, it's a staggering amount of money for one free throw.