Up to the tournament, Purdue was undefeated vs non conference teams. Purdues style of play just wom the NCAA tourney. Purdue just doesn't have the athletes to do what UCONN (whose coach studied Painter and his offense while developing his style) did. Style is fine, athleticism is not.
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You may be laughing but you are incorrect. The loss to FDU was very disappointing, no doubt about that. FDU was 21-16 this past season. However if you look it up, you will find that there have been 19 teams with losing records that made the tournament. So how a team that was +5 is worse than 19 teams with losing records is a bit beyond me. But hey, don't let math get in the way of your feelings.
Those other teams were rated higher by Helm's and actually earned their spot in the tourney while FDU was a replacement team. Also, there's this thing called SOS to consider ... which you've completely ignored. You're a math liar .. how typical.
Still laughing ....
Every time you type all I see .. is (16) 63 (1) 58 . < how's that for math, b*tch?
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And don't let facts get in your way.
FDU should not have even been in, so PU lost to a non-tournament worthy team. As far as I know, that is the FIRST time that has happened.
Painter smart enough to recruit him, ranked 400 some in his classs, so anyone else could have recruited him also.
but 10 of 13 against you with a couple of Big 10 championships. TJD won 1 NCAA game and no titles in his career.
Ware put up similar numbers in similar minutes as Edey did as a freshman, but he did it while being able to actually run the floor and play defense.
Relevant enough to have the NPOY aND #1 RANKING for several weeks.
Not sure what the CNN thing is about, but Mike Woodson does have an NBA championship ring.
Uh you don’t understand that the rankings of teams is more than won loss records? Are you new to this?
We don’t bother hanging banners for B1G champions. We reserve ours for bigger achievements
No, he's misrepresenting it to push his narrative.. which is why I called him a liar. He knows damn well that a majority of the teams with worse win loss records were better than FDU and from better conferences.
This is what Purdue fans do. It's called Helm's Logic.
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Congrats on beating non-conference teams back in November lol. Too bad for you the NCAA tournament is played in March. Purdue’s style of play was dumping the ball into lurch on every possession.
Again, you are making things up. FDU earned their way into the tournament according to the rules established at the beginning of the season. Merrimack was always ineligible according to their conference rules. Once it was established what the Northeast Conference Finals were, FDU was in. Why would you not think at that point that FDU's play in the Final was affected by that knowledge? If you are already in, I would seek to minimize chance of injury, etc.
As for those 19 teams, how do you know what they were rated and what their SOS was? You are just throwing out a comment with no backup.
While Purdue lost by 5, VA lost by 20. Again, math to me suggests 20 is worse than 5. But don't let facts get in the way of a nonsensical opinion.
You're right. FDU was really good, by Purdue standards. LOL!
Purdue is against further expansion of the tournament, since losing to a 18 seed might then be possible.
I would not use that comeback. The last is all we have at Iu lol
That is a fabrication of the point of my post. If you care to look, you will see earlier that I referred to Purdue's loss as very disappointing. I never said that FDU was a good team. I did post that they earned their way into the tournament based on the rules established by their conference.
I also noted that 19 teams with losing records have made the tournament. 2023 FDU was not one of them. Three teams at 11-18 have gotten in; I suggest FDU was better than them. So FDU was likely not the "worst team ever to get into the tournament."
Perhaps not the absolute worst, but they were the lowest ranked team to ever beat a #1 seed.
Speculative, suggestive and dumb. Those teams won there conferences. FDU didn’t win the regular season or the conference tournament. FDU was/is/will be the worse loss in tournament history for a long long time.
They were the worst by every metric. The others he’s spouting about won their confidences. FDU was 2/3 in their conference.
But it was such a terrible matchup for Purdue 😂😂
Again, not true. I am not sure about their confidences but I do know that the teams mentioned only got in by winning their conference tournaments.
FDU was 2nd in their conference to ineligible Merrimack. That made them the highest-rated eligible team in their conference prior to the conference tournament. Again, far from good but far from the worst, which was the claim.
I don't really care that much. You lost as a 1 seed to a 16 seed.. Why are you even here trying to make it not seem so bad?
You are so dumb. 2 won their conferences. The other did win the conference tournament. You troll. FDU was tied for second and didn’t win the conference tournament. So literally no other team has done that. Those other three won fair and square. FDU was a default team. 301st in net.
Painter was smart to take advantage of a player of his size. He didn't take him due to his mad skills.
Your coach constantly loses to mid-majors at a historic rate and experienced the worst loss in sports history. This is what your coach is doing in year 18. Painter literally should not have a job.
Only 2 #16 seeds have ever won in NCAAT history, and the only reason FDU made the NCAAT was Merrimack was recently a D-2 program! The team that beat Virginia was way better, and Virginia was missing their best player. PU's loss to FDU is the worst loss in sports history.
Damn…just stopped to check in….looks like the bus dropped off all the lil bros in our front yard after school today.
This year, yes. Didn't have the guards to do a ton else. Was a weakness. Was a weakness coming into the season. Freshman played well until late. Hit the wall
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