The local staff think Purdue is the preseason #1 contender … and place IU at #4
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis...s_in_NCAA_Division_I_men's_college_basketballYou sure dodged and weaved on this one, but it is what it is:
NCAA Division I FBS football win–loss records - Wikipedia
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I think USC and UCLA will get that done … they will punish ‘playground thuggery’ … and those that can’t beat ‘em will join ‘em.
Those two guards will need to improve exponentially to meet that expectation.
They won't play all the bottom feeders twice this year, so they better improve.
They won BT by 3 games! And then all those teams showed up in the BTT to show how Purdue had such a easy schedule, and hells bells Purdue won that also! How does that happen?
It is always helpful to have the easiest schedule. It is only fair that they get the toughest schedule this season.
Wouldn't you?
They have a tougher preseason as well. Will be funny to see them out numbered by AZ fans in Indy
No one will remember Purdue winning the conference last year. No one really cares. No one will remember Purdue winning the BTT either.... but .... everyone will remember a #1 seed Purdue losing to a 17 seed low major and laugh thier asses off. You guys are a historical embarrassment.
I know. Our bench players get more than everyone on your team except edey.
You do realize in their last 12 games last year Purdue was 7-5. The overall record from last year may be skewed since it took 3 months for teams to realize how to beat them. If they go into this year with same game plan is 7-5 the norm now?
It will be ugly. X is going to make them suffer. Lots of teams will deny Smith early and often. Loyer is no point guard.
They're going to have to work, very hard, on getting the ball up earlier, and getting in to their sets. As you, and others have pointed out, bodying Smith early WILL happen a lot. And if Painter doesn't change, his bag of plays that he uses to get Edey post touches, will be far less effective.
You can only adjust so much. They miss having a guy like Williams. Edey, loyer and Smith aren’t going to drastically change. Might get ugly pretty quick if any coach has seen the film.
I kinda doubt it gets "ugly"...they'll still win a lot of games. But instead of winning 30 games, and being a 1 seed, like I'm sure they all expect. They'll go something like 23-9 in the regular season, and be a 3 ish type seed. And someone will seriously challenge them for the regular season B10 title. They'll be like 13-7 in the B10 or something like that.
They get Xavier right out of the gates in the Gavitt games. Not sure who is in the Maui tournament, but they'll get someone good there. I saw they announced Arizona game this season too. They could get embarrassed early by someone.
Won’t be as smooth early for them. I’ll eat crow if they turn out better. I actually like Edey and the soon to be sophomores. They are nice feel good types but they will be facing grown a$$ men. Dog types.
They could get embarassed by AZ fans outnumbering them in Indy.
Maui is loaded will get at least 2 really good games. Purdue is going to get some great early test. Will be fun to watch.
Good to see you still living here Gilligan. Your ignore setting for me seems to have expired.
Please try to learn something about NIL before coming here and clogging up the board with ignoarance.
Since NIL started IU is 3-1, including sweeping PU last year. You drunk valleyJ?
If you spend more money, shouldn't the product you're purchasing be better than one that costs less?
You lost your four best players and replaced them with kids that have no desire to be in college past 2024. You have no commitments for 2024 and one guy that should be a lay down (Trent Sisley) has issues with roster turnover.
X would have been better than JHS last year. He is going to demolish the PU guards. Little bit higher competition than the knights. Maybe you can win a few games against Minny and Penn state this year. Hang a banner.
You have 1 guy signed in the class of '23, had to take a grad transfer from S Ill and still have an open spot, but you're over here talking shit about recruiting? That's the typical lack of self awareness shown by you clowns.
You don’t even understand what you don’t understand.
Woody was responsible for both of those wins. He out coached the shit out of PorkChop and did it short handed.
Also winless in the NCAA tournament after being beaten by a 15 and 16 seed, more facts.
