Tonight has been a great night of college basketballing. Hope this trend continues.

Eh, I don’t see it. A common foul, sure, but he’s falling down and grabbed the jersey. Didn’t seem to have much of an impact on young.

You gotta be ****ing kidding me. I've been watching sports for 32 years and that is one of the most ridiculous calls I have ever seen. If I ran this world each ref on that crew would be impaled atop the cube, one at a time, each body left rotting until the smell was intolerable. Dead ****ing serious.

I was looking back at the top freshmen coming into the season and it looks likely that ZERO out of the top-5 will play in the NCAA tournament

Wiseman had enough of the NCAA and is sitting out, Hampton went to New Zealand and, Georgia, Washington and UNC are all gonna miss the dance.

Pretty wild.

Looking at that, I asked myself how Washington was this bad. I know Quade Green got suspended, but he was still there for 2/3 of the season so far. I looked it up and WOW.

1-7 in games decided by 4 or less, 1-9 in games decided by 7 or less.

Yep, that'll do it.

Scrolling through that and man what terrible overall class compared to others recently.

Purdue adds a 36 win over Iowa to 29 point victories over Michigan State and Virginia along with a 19 point win over Wisconsin.

Mackey Arena is a helluva drug

Purdue went from 29th KenPom before tonights game to 16 after LOL

12 B1G teams currently between 10 and 49 in NET. Crazy.

7 Big East teams in that same range. Crazier?

If Purdue makes the tournament Vegas is going to have to make some crazy adjustments to the line to get any money in on that side.

Unless Mackey is holding a regional I don't know about that is.

Purdue could miss the tournament at 17-13 easily I'd imagine. And if they're 17-13, and keep dumptrucking good teams at home and losing close to good teams on the road, they'll probably be a KenPom top 20 team that's left out. Kind of crazy.

They will probably slip in at 18-15 after winning a game in the BTT. Losing first round and going 18-16 may be a #1 seed in the NIT. They will probably find a way to stay hot on 3s at IU Saturday though and end up in easy.

Purdue has 4 road games left, all roughly equal games: Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio State. All 4 would easily be quad 1 wins. All 4 are get-able. Predominant thinking is that we have to get 1 of them plus win all the home games (Penn St, Rutgers, Indiana, Michigan).

Wonder if now that the news has broken about Zavier Simpson's suspension, it might get some additional games. Turns out he was driving the AD's wife's car and hit a utility pole in icy conditions at 3am the morning after a game last month. Then lied about his name to the police on the scene. Good kid.

Been a lot of public criticism since the story finally came out. Does kind of feel like Michigan might have to keep him out of a couple more games now but who knows.

Ok boomer.

Purdue did beat VCU and lost to FSU in OT by 3 on a neutral court. It's really just on the road where they are terrible.

Seriously? Dude sucks at driving on ice. Big deal. And then he panics and lies to the cops. Totally understandable for a young black kid in that spot. Lol at anyone who knocks his character over this or thinks he should get suspended for more gms.

lol he lied to a cop who knew who he was

True, he didn't make the brightest decision in the heat of battle. His default strategy of reflexively lying to cops just needs to be tweaked a little. Still lol@anyone who casts a character judgment over this.

How is that not an improper gift?

The AD's son is a manager on the basketball team. He and Simpson are friends, and the general understanding is that it's basically the son's car even though it's registered to his mom.

Also, it's a 2011 Toyota Rav4. Alabama football players wouldn't be caught dead driving that around campus.

I don't even know what that means.

It's all questionable behavior unless you're from Michigan I guess.

For the first 2.5 years of Brad Underwoods time at Illinois, he played this really stupid over pressure on the perimeter/gamble for steals defense that basically everyone recognized as terrible. Theres a twitter account called Big Ten Geek that follows B1G basketball and they've been breaking down how stupid this defense was since halfway through Underwoods first year. He stubbornly kept playing it and Illinoiswas 312th and 308th in 2 point defense the past 2 years since that defense gave up so many layups gambling for steals.

He finally switched to a defense that packs the paint and it's so hard to score on Illinois. 2nd in the B1G in 2 point defense in conference play(they switched right before conference play this year.)


They have some major shooting/spacing issues on offense, but man is it going to be hard for a team to beat them in March if they can muster any sort of consistent offense because they just dominate the boards and have length out on the perimeter to challenge jumpers as well as the 2 bigs inside protecting the rim.

Yep, it's the type of thing that can work really well at the low-mid major level because the ball handlers in the Southland Conference just aren't good enough to beat it with consistency and they give up a ton of turnovers.

It just doesn't work well at the high major level where the talent is better and they can turn the opportunities into easy buckets.

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