RaceToTheTop

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Fort Wayne up 1 with 13:38.

Final Marquette 76, Purdue 58

tie game, 47 seconds left, Northwestern ball

Marquette finally stretches the lead -- 63-49 with just under 5 minutes to play. Purdue really not playing their A game.

If Marquette could hit anything right, they would be pulling away. Instead, still a seven point game.

Purdue really committing a lot of turnovers.

Marquette simply looking like the better team but they aren't putting any distance between them and Purdue. Five points game now. When Purdue does score, they are getting layups.

Marquette 35, Purdue 28 at half. Purdue really can't feel bad about being down 7 because they were uncharactistically sloppy.

Marquette 31, Purdue 23 late in the first half. Purdue is very good at switching on picks. But they are doing a very poor job when they are taken off the dribble.

Bought a stand up arcade machine a while back — has joust, gauntlet, rampage and defender.

IU 84 UNCG 69

In terms of Deion Sanders.....just my opinion, but staying at Colorado > going to Florida State. NIL might be better at Florida State, but the ACC is in dire straits. Both the SEC and Big Ten rejected Clemson and Florida's attempts to join. Best case for Florida State would be to join Big 12 but that's likely years away.

Do you find it hard to walk with your crystal balls?

I think A&M loses to Texas. I'm also of the opinion that Ole Miss has a good chance of losing at Florida this weekend.

Torvik has a feature that I didn't know they had -- a "WAB", or wins above bubble rating. Compares a teams number of wins to the minimum they project needed to make the tournament. Through three games, IU is at +0.40.

I hate when I post in the wrong thread. Gets worse with age. Probably means Old Fart has some of his best posts on IU typed into a word document.

Down goes BYU to 3-6 Kansas.

So now a 16 point victory is a ‘few things’ from being a 2-4 point or a loss?

She’d be willing to take a charge from him.

C.J. Gunn (DePaul): DNP in DePaul's opening 80-78 win over Southern Indiana due to an undisclosed injury. Also sat out their last exhibition game due to injury. Kaleb Banks (Tulane): Played 27 minutes in Tulane's opening 76-42 win against D2 Louisiana College. Score 14 points on 4-8 shooting (including 4-6 from three) and had 13 rebounds. Payton Sparks (Ball State): Poor start for Sparks in his return to Ball State. 1 point and 7 rebounds in 20 minutes in Ball State's 71-66 loss to Georgia State. Khristian Lander (Western Kentucky): Played 24 minutes in WKU's opening 91-84 loss to Wichita State. Had 7 points, 2 rebounds, and 2 assists. 4-11 from the field including 0-4 from three. Jordan Geronimo (Maryland): Payed 12 minutes in Maryland's opening 79-49 win over Manhattan. Scored 2 points and had 3 rebounds.

Torvik projects South Carolina to be 16-14, 7-11 in the SEC. The closer comparison they to them in the Big Ten this season is Nebraska. I'd be fine with a 16 point home win over Nebraska.

There was a significant stretch in the game where Carlyle, Rice, and Galloway were all on the floor. Ballo and Reneau combined for 59 minutes which means there was 21 minutes where Mgbako or someone else was at the 4.

Stute and Ugusuk were 7 of 11 from three in the first half -- 0 of 6 in the second half. South Carolina was 7 of 20 from three in the first half -- 1 of 9 in the second half.