2018 NCAA Tournament Games

[rebelhoosier848891]

Congrats to Purdue on a good year. But—Boiler DOWN! First Kentucky-and now Purdue. Another great night of sleep!


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[Yogi's Picnic Basket]

My Chris Beard inclusion on candidates for replacing Crean looks good. If anything one thing he does is beat Purdue lol.

[Hoosierfan2017]

I hope Painter stays at Purdue for a very, very long time. They won't be a tournament threat as long as he's there. 

[chicagoHOOSIER]

I really cannot wait until we can begin to celebrate our own victories rather than our rivals' failures.

But man, epic celebrating our rivals' failures sure feels good right now!

I guess it will just have to do hardy har!

Savor it.  Hopefully this time next year we can remember this week fondly.  Speaking of fond memories, Sunday is Archie's IU anniversary.

[Yogi's Picnic Basket]

Btw I'd still take Archie, but I said last year Beard reminds me of Knight. Their relationship rubbed off on him. Great coach and bright future. If I was U of L I would throw him a blank check over Mack. Just my opinion though. Mike White is still on my list of future stars in the coaching ranks as well. BTW how the neck hasn't the Loyola coach even been mentioned with any openings? Great run is usually the formula for a big new job. I don't know much about him though so who knows.

[HoosierSadaseci]

Good to see Purdue go down, too bad Haas was out, they'll use it as an excuse, which is legitimate, but THEY STILL LOST!  Carsen Edwards will be tough next year.

[TheWatShot]

Purdue seriously looked like they quit after Tech hit that three to go up 63-55. Same as last year when Kansas outscored them by 40 over a 25 minute stretch.

 

 

[TheWatShot]

1 minute ago, chicagoHOOSIER said:

I really cannot wait until we can begin to celebrate our own victories rather than our rivals' failures.

But man, celebrating our rivals' failures sure feels good right now!

Don't worry, we're due for the good but not elite team we usually get about once every three or four years that will lose around 8-10 games and maybe reach the second weekend. Then it'll be two or three more years of hoping for outcomes like the last two nights while we're several weeks into our offseason (I don't really believe that; it's the last 20 years of mostly dismal, boring failure talking...but you never know).

[chicagoHOOSIER]

30 minutes ago, Yogi's Picnic Basket said:

Btw I'd still take Archie, but I said last year Beard reminds me of Knight. Their relationship rubbed off on him. Great coach and bright future. If I was U of L I would throw him a blank check over Mack. Just my opinion though. Mike White is still on my list of future stars in the coaching ranks as well. BTW how the neck hasn't the Loyola coach even been mentioned with any openings? Great run is usually the formula for a big new job. I don't know much about him though so who knows.

Fun fact:  One of Rick Greenspan's assistants at IU hired Porter Moser when she took the Loyola AD gig a few years ago.  Grace Calhoun.  She also moved Loyola from the Horizon League to the MVC.  Good move.  She's at Penn now.

[TheWatShot]

3 minutes ago, Yogi's Picnic Basket said:

Btw I'd still take Archie, but I said last year Beard reminds me of Knight. Their relationship rubbed off on him. Great coach and bright future. If I was U of L I would throw him a blank check over Mack. Just my opinion though. Mike White is still on my list of future stars in the coaching ranks as well. BTW how the neck hasn't the Loyola coach even been mentioned with any openings? Great run is usually the formula for a big new job. I don't know much about him though so who knows.

He's knocked Purdue out of the tournament 2 of the last 3 years. I like him.

[chicagoHOOSIER]

7 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

Don't worry, we're due for the good but not elite team we usually get about once every three or four years that will lose around 8-10 games and maybe reach the second weekend. Then it'll be two or three more years of hoping for outcomes like the last two nights while we're several weeks into our offseason (I don't really believe that; it's the last 20 years of mostly dismal, boring failure talking...but you never know).

aww now

time for a new crystal ball!

[Hoosier Guy]

As usual, Purdue is gone in the Sweet 16. They suck

[CSP]

Every team that had the better guards won tonight. No coincidence. 

[TheWatShot]

I've already seen a Purdue fan reference how many days it's been since they last lost to IU.

 

Never grow up, little brother.

[Bailey7878]

As usual, Purdue is gone in the Sweet 16. They suck

While true haas being gone hurt them bad.

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[CSP]

23 minutes ago, Bailey7878 said:

While true haas being gone hurt them bad.

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Don't care

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

5 hours ago, Bailey7878 said:

While true haas being gone hurt them bad.

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Yes it did, but I doubt they gave us much sympathy over Scott May's broken arm or Alan Henderson's injury so they can just continue to eat dirt and bark at the moon!

[Hoosier Guy]

So Elite Eight play begins tonight. Loyola-Chicago vs Kansas State and Florida State vs Michigan. I’m going with Loyola-Chicago and Michigan

[pumpfake]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Yes it did, but I doubt they gave us much sympathy over Scott May's broken arm or Alan Henderson's injury so they can just continue to eat dirt and bark at the moon!

While we can understand their pain, it's not like losing a key player is unique to PU.  As you said, we lost May and Henderson (who were each much better players than anyone on this year's PU team) and had our title aspirations killed.  Another point is that it's not like PU was steamrolling everyone coming into the tournament - they peaked in January and were vulnerable before Haas' injury.