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Surprised they didn't call a blocking foul on Troy. I mean, his chest hit that guy's arm pretty hard. 

We're really struggling to get open looks. 

Come on, Max, you have to be smarter than that. 

Hartman is getting abused on D. 

  I think Crean said he was cutting back on practice time and after the season was over, Cody Zeller said in an interview that they were still practicing 4 hours a day in March.        Whatever happened to "in the gym" anyway? That guy was plugged in. 

How many free throws for the Badgers tomorrow night? 30? 40? 

I don't think they're a national contender, but I think this is easily their best team since the Adam Haluska days.      They start 4 seniors and a junior. They're experienced and very, very good. 

This kind of makes me hope we get Northwestern in the BTT and our students boo him every time he touches the ball. 

We all know a person who says something dumb or irritating, says something even worse, then, when he should just STFU, he tops it off with something even more stupid.      Albers is that guy. 

  He looked good against their cupcake-filled non conference schedule. If he played for MSU, he'd probably be a first-rounder right now. NBA scouts probably don't even know where Purdue is located. 

Gesell has to be point shaving. 

Iowa getting dumb in these last few minutes, missing free throws and taking quick shots to let Purdue back in it. 

Northwestern 2-5 in the Big Ten and they're ranked? 

Fouling and timeouts in a 10 point game with under 30 seconds left…hate when teams do this. Just take the loss and move on. 

  I agree. Unfortunately, I think Purdue wins tomorrow. They have a knack for coming up with big road wins. 

  As sad as this sounds, the noon start time actually is too early for some students. When I was in college, I knew guys who were up until 4 or 5 a.m. and struggled to get out of bed by noon. I'm not an early riser myself, but I couldn't stand stuff like that. Total waste of a day to sleep that late. 

Really didn't see us getting up by 30 this time. Impressive. 

We had 9 different players score in the first half while they had only 3. Wow. 

This is about the time we dropped the hammer on Illinois. Let's do it again. 

Olah and Demps, drawing fouls on the floor and walking straight to the foul line. Morons. 

I don't know about anybody else, and it sounds weird to say this about Northwestern players, but I'm really sick of Demps and Olah. 

Out of all turnovers, stepping out of bounds is probably my biggest pet peeve. That shouldn't happen multiple times a game at this level. 

A multi-year deal to one of their assistants? Screw you, Cavs, you were supposed to get Calipari away from UK!      Cleveland gonna Cleveland. 

Meant to post this the other night…I found TeamworkOrange. He posts on Illinois Loyalty now. It appears the Illinois scout board had a similar exodus to ours and they have multiple other boards they post on now. Here's what he had to say about the game:   Anybody who knows me on the boards, knows I abhor all things IU. I didn't expect us to win tonight, but this... this, is not good. Not good at all. I'm extremely calm, and I was calm watching the game. This is unlike me as I typically yell at the tv during games. I guess I have resigned myself to the fact that we're not a very good basketball program anymore. I'm still a fan and will root for the team, but I'm no longer emotionally invested. I haven't felt this down about our program since the Deon Thomas sanctions. It's hard to believe...     "I guess I have resigned myself to the fact that we're not a very good basketball program anymore." Loved that line. 

I never thought I would hear anyone say they didn't go to a basketball game because it was too cold outside.