College Bball Thread

[HinnyHoosier]

I, and every B1G coach with a semi-athletic guard, hope Smith and Loyer are at Purdue for 8 years. 

Can’t remember which game it was yesterday, but ol’ Dickie V had Fletcher Loyer listed as one of his diaper dandies [emoji23]. I think that glass eye is starting to catch up to him.


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[RaceToTheTop]

WAR top 25 after the Purdue/Northwestern game.  Wildcats move up from 36th in WAR to 26, just outside the top 25.

		W	L	WAR
1	Alabama	22	3	8.02
2	Purdue	23	3	7.7
3	Kansas	20	5	7.44
4	Texas	20	5	6.19
5	UCLA	21	4	5.84
6	Houston	23	2	5.76
7	Arizona	22	4	5.65
8	Baylor	19	6	5.3
9	Kansas St	19	5	4.99
10	Virginia	19	4	4.89
11	Gonzaga	20	5	4.82
12	Marquette	20	6	4.64
13	San Diego St	19	5	4.48
14	Xavier	19	6	4.4
15	U Conn	19	7	3.96
16	St. Mary's	20	6	3.7
17	Indiana	18	7	3.62
18	MIami (F)	20	5	3.46
19	FAU	20	2	3.44
20	Missouri	19	6	3.37
21	Nevada	19	6	3.21
22	Tennessee	19	6	3.14
23	Michigan St	16	9	3.03
24	Iowa St	16	8	2.98
25	Creighton	17	8	2.93

Just out:  Northwestern 18-7 +2.57, NC State, 20-5 +2.54, TCU 17-8 +2.54, Illinois 17-7 +2.45, Memphis 19-6 +2.42.

[colonel06]

4 minutes ago, Whoozhers said:

Northwestern is going to have ton of confidence when we go there on Wednesday.

We must have X without him our guards are easy pickings’!

[Brass Cannon]

If Purdue were to be in the beginning of a rough patch that would be swell. 

[HinnyHoosier]

Northwestern is going to have ton of confidence when we go there on Wednesday.

Or a ton of overconfidence, knowing they already beat us and now we’re on the road.


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[Demo]

Check out the replies. I tend to agree that it was pretty badly officiated. But, strangest thing, not 1 mention of their freshman guards flat collapsing and what that might portend for a tournament run. If I were them, THAT’s what I’d be worried about. 

[Golfman25]

Kudo's to NW.  Good for Chris Collins, local boy done good.  

So when we win on Wed, should I storm the court.  :)  

[Brass Cannon]

3 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Or a ton of overconfidence, knowing they already beat us and now we’re on the road.


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Fingers crossed

[Uspshoosier]

Bama going to be ranked #1 Monday?   I would vote for them 

[hoosierdogg]

[Stuhoo]

36 minutes ago, Demo said:

Check out the replies. I tend to agree that it was pretty badly officiated. But, strangest thing, not 1 mention of their freshman guards flat collapsing and what that might portend for a tournament run. If I were them, THAT’s what I’d be worried about. 

Edey is a lousy passer.

If he catches deep it doesn’t matter. You’re already cooked.

But NW just provided the blueprint for doubling him as quickly as possible every time he catches more than five feet from the rim.

because Purdue has quite literally not one player on the roster that can finish at the rim when they cut and catch a pass from Edey 

[DChoosier]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

Edey is a lousy passer.

If he catches deep it doesn’t matter. You’re already cooked.

But NW just provided the blueprint for doubling him as quickly as possible every time he catches more than five feet from the rim. 

Yep and man I wish we had a healthy X as it would be great to see X and JHS press the PU guards.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

I believe B1G POY talks have fully opened for a few days. 

[lillurk]

4 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

Yep and man I wish we had a healthy X as it would be great to see X and JHS press the PU guards.

I think X will be back by 2/25 :)

[RaceToTheTop]

16 minutes ago, Demo said:

Check out the replies. I tend to agree that it was pretty badly officiated. But, strangest thing, not 1 mention of their freshman guards flat collapsing and what that might portend for a tournament run. If I were them, THAT’s what I’d be worried about. 

On the officiating....meh.  Purdue got to the line 24 times, Northwestern 20.  17 fouls each side.  Edey had 13 free throws.

[DChoosier]

PU’s next game is @ Maryland (13-1 at home).

Many may have presented PU the Big Ten crown a bit prematurely. 

[RaceToTheTop]

7 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I believe B1G POY talks have fully opened for a few days. 

In conference games:

Edey:  22.6 ppg (1st), 13.40 (2nd) rpg, 1.6 ast/game, 2.6 blocks/game (2nd)

TJD:  21.8 ppg (2nd), 13.43 (1st) rpg, 4.3 ast/game (8th), 3.3 blocks/game (1st)

[Stuhoo]

4 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

PU’s next game is @ Maryland (13-1 at home).

Many may have presented PU the Big Ten crown a bit prematurely. 

For me?

I like Maryland in that one.

[IUFAN1976]

31 minutes ago, Demo said:

Check out the replies. I tend to agree that it was pretty badly officiated. But, strangest thing, not 1 mention of their freshman guards flat collapsing and what that might portend for a tournament run. If I were them, THAT’s what I’d be worried about. 

I’ve been telling people all along, you can’t win in the NCAA tournament with freshman guard play.  Teams will figure out how to defense them and that started with IU and now NW expanded on that and now the blueprint has been established.  Purdue isn’t as good as there ranking.  It’s easy for their guards to throw it down to a 7-4 giant but once teams figure out how to defend him and pressure those two freshman guards, Purdue doesn’t have the same supporting cast to pick up the slack 

[Alford Bailey]

I think we showed to some extent how to pressure the Purdue guards.