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I can see Duke basketball up there, but (for example) Kentucky is going to crush a Stanford. This is MBB only. Football I would expect to be at the bottom of the Big10.
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I can see Duke basketball up there, but (for example) Kentucky is going to crush a Stanford. This is MBB only. Football I would expect to be at the bottom of the Big10.
Feel sorry for anybody who will one day have to refer to this Purdue run as “glory years”.
Right, I just don't think we need a transfer at guard. We also have Gunn who will need more pt. Much better for future recruiting to develop what we have already.
How many games behind B10 conference champs? Just 3 with those dubs. Hey congrats.
if you are talking revenue that doesn't factor into NIL , Nil can't be funded by the schools.
Thanks. I'll take it with the injuries we've had this year and in Woody's 2nd year.
BTW, Edey is a helluva player . . . .
Imagine being in the middle of arguably the greatest 5-6 year run in your programs history and at the end of the day all that it is remembered by is consecutive losses to North Texas and St. Peter's?
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It is interesting to read the inconsistencies on this board. Not too long ago, Purdue was being criticized for playing a soft pre-conference schedule. Then they play the Big Ten schedule and the BTT and win both. If they plateaued, which I disagree, it was from a high level.
By the way, ESPN's Borzello had Duke picked #5 in the country preseason. ESPN analysts had them picked 2nd or 3rd in the ACC behind NC and split with Virginia. So the argument that they got a whole lot better over the year based upon expectations is questionable.
I am not. I am talking what the players are being paid in NIL money, from boosters.
I get it believe me, injuries suck. Right back at ya and TJD is having a unbelievable year and really gifted. In all kidding aside, I can see IU making a lot of noise in tourney.
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Duke's won 9 in a row and 12 out of their last 14 games. They've lost twice this calendar year. Playing as well as anybody in the country right now. Heralded freshman still typically play like freshman to start the year, Duke's freshman class has gotten steadily better as the year has progressed and no longer playing like freshman.
Purdue played out of their mind for a 10 day stretch nearly 5 months ago and hasn't come close to replicating it since. Fletcher Loyer is a shell of his former self.
IU won the 2 games they played against Purdue, kudos. However, Purdue won the Big Ten regular season by a good margin and the BTT as well. They were ranked #1 in the country for a good part of the season. Purdue fans will happily trade those outcomes every year going forward. And if offered the same in reverse, IU fans would make the trade as well and you know it.
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What did Borzello pick Purdue preseason? Did Purdue get a whole lot better during the course of the year, or should they have just been ranked to start the year?
We already know you have very little basketball knowledge, but it would be very embarrassing for you not to admit that Duke has gotten much better and is not the same team you played in Portland.
I don't think IU is top 5 in the country Miami payed Nijel Pack 800k this year. just takes 1 crazy billionaire to buy a complete team.
Yes, I would trade our Big Ten schedule for Purdue's soft Big Ten schedule.
I agree 100% and I’ve posted that here. If Musk wanted to pay $500 million for kids to play somewhere he could.
But, it’s still about basketball and not how rich people that went to the school are. For example, if TJD was playing for Harvard what would he be making? Pennies on the dollar. TJD is getting the money he is as much for the uniform he is wearing as he is for his stats.
You are sorry bastard,any school would be damn proud to have those and you know it. You guys are over here looking for respect , know wonder no one respects you.
Before you criticize anyone else's basketball knowledge, your prediction of Smith being a non-factor was way off. He did make the Big Ten All-Freshmen team. That is not something non-factors make.
Sam Gilbert would like a word . . . .
I guess being rich is one part of the equation. Another would be how much emphasis the rich folks would put on having an elite basketball team.
UGA? Not so much compared to the football team. UCLA? Maybe more than UGA . . . .
Arkansas? Might be . . . there's a lot of money in and near Fayetteville, what with Bentonville right there.
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I always see posters claim that we have the boosters to pay. How do they know this? Where are these top 5/ 10 numbers coming from. Are they guesses, facts?
What do Loyer’s ppg “round to” now? You still going to act like Duke is the same team you played in Portland?
Borzello did not pick Purdue in his Top 25 preseason. He did pick IU 14th so he was close there.
Given how things have turned out, if Purdue did not improve over the season, they then must have stayed at a high level.
By the way, as for the "soft schedule": last year Purdue played each of the top teams twice and finished 1 game out of first place. Did you give them credit for that? I doubt it. The nature of an unbalanced schedule is that some years will turn out differently than others. I am sure that at the beginning of the year, IU was looking forward to playing NW twice. And we all know how that turned out.
So you're advocating to not play David Jenkins in the NCAA tournament then?
Purdue also got swept by Northwestern (and IU, but we all know that).
Purdue has gotten worse since the beginning of the year. Purdue started out hot shooting the ball, and it has taken a cliff dive since then. What are your 3 best wins on the season?
I'm a part of that everyone group but I certainly don't predict LD is heading out the door. I never expected him to be a situational or consistent rotation player in the paint with the resources playing in front of him this year. He knows that and has shown patience by not leaving after last season. In decades past we waited for 3rd and 4th year players to earn their chance. Also I believe no other player in CBB has the face to face in the paint experience going against Davis. He's got another offseason to mature and fill out which we'll be enjoying come conference time next year. I like Logan right where he is at.
That was based on a hot take from his grandmother, who has since recanted.
Also, I'm not sure those who said that are insiders . . . to whom are you referring?
Of the 9 in a row that Duke played and won, 3 were in the ACC tourney (Pitt, Miami and Virginia.) Of the other 6 games, only one was against a team in the NCAA Tournament (NC State) and that was a home game for Duke. So of the 9. there were 3 solid Tournament entrants and one play-in entrant. Of the regular season games, only 2 were road games (UNC and Syracuse) neither of whom were tournament qualifiers.
In comparison, Purdue went 6-3 in their last 9 games. Of the 3 losses, 2 were road games (MD and NW) and 5 were against tourney entrants. It should likely have been 6 because one was Rutgers and given how close Rutgers was to making the field the bad-call loss to OSU probably kept them out.
I do not consider the differences major when compared given the quality of opponents and road/home mixes.
By the way, I do not know where you are getting your stats, but Duke has lost 5 times in this calendar year, not twice. (NC State, Clemson, VA Tech, Miami and Virginia) in a weak and top-heavy ACC as evidenced by the few teams in the tournament compared to most years.
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Duke has been murdering teams. Purdue can't seem to get out of their own way even in games they win.
There are no style points in a W/L record. If there were Alabama would not be the #1 seed in the tournament.
I'll take the team who is currently rolling over the team struggling to put away teams any day of the week. Not so sure Purdue even makes it the S16 for a rematch with Duke.
