RaceToTheTop

Ugh.

Little bit of a game now. An ugly, ugly game....but a bit of a game now.

Man, these Purdue fans are annoying.

7-0 this half....in six minutes.

Smith got double and Green was wide open.

Smith is adding nothing.

Brunk is adding nothing.

Gene Keady back in town to help celebrate their never title team.

Every inside touch they are doubling. Someone either SHOULD be open or SHOULD be flashing or cutting. Where is that movement?

Thing is, Purdue doesn't even look good on offense one bit yet we're down 16.

Pull TJD and leave in Brunk??

Our leading scorer has 4 points.

Hunter flexing what I guess he calls his muscle.

Jesus...what is Phinissee doing? Don't tell me Lander isn't starting over him next year.

Jesus Christ....the old bald guy makes a three the he didn't catch cleanly while Phinnissee can't make wide open shots.

Durham mugged.

Someone clean Armaan Franklin's shoes off. Dude is playing on roller skates.

Literally didn't do anything to him.

Not even going to teams with losing conference records, teams with less than 20 losses receiving at large bids has certainly anything but rare in the 2000s. I picked 2005 and 2006 randomly.....in 2005, 4 teams with sub 20 win seasons were given at large bids. In 2006, 5 were. Secondly, under your requirements it would be better for power conference teams to cut back on the number of conference games in order to allow teams to schedule enough cupcakes to get to 20 wins.

The big difference is that last year the Big Ten wasn't as highly rated as this year. Everyone agrees this year that the Big Ten is the top conference. It wasn't last year. That said, if someone can explain to me how Ohio State at 18-9 and 8-8 in conference with a non-conference schedule worse than IU's (according to KenPom) can be ranked 23rd in both polls while IU at 18-9 and 8-8 in conference can't even get a single vote, I'm willing to listen.

Maryland shot 38% from the field and 21% three. Minnesota shot 46% and 42%....and lost. To sum up the Big Ten tonight: Rutgers came back from 21 down on the road only to give up a 3 with 27 seconds left to lose by 1. Maryland only led once at 2-0 before they hit that desperation three to come back from 17 down to beat Minnesota.

Maryland puts on their ski mask and absolutely steals one.

Maryland 25 footer with 1.9 seconds left after Kalsheur misses....Maryland up 1. Damn replay of the IU game. Think Maryland was down 8 with about two minutes left. Pitino better draw up some magic or they are officially done from NCAA (and maybe even NIT considering they may not break .500) consideration.

Proof that the NET system is worse than RPI: Current RPI entering today using the old system: IU (18-9) 44 Purdue (14-14) 96 Minnesota (13-13) 99 Yet somehow IU is way behind both Purdue and Minnesota in NET.

2 point game, 14.5 seconds left. Minnesota 73-71. Minnesota ball out of bounds.