Stlboiler23

Haha is that you HTD?

Yep you're right! My parents, sister, and wife are all IU grads.

To me, a B1G Championship is a B1G Championship. In a few years, most folks won’t remember that it was shared with MSU. Going into the year, I expected Purdue to be between maybe 4th-6th in the conference and a bubble team. Purdue wildly exceeded expectations by winning the conference and gaining a 3 seed. I’d be bummed if we didn’t make it to the S16 but I’d still look at the overall season as a success. Again, if this is what we can expect in a down/rebuilding year moving forward, I can live with that. Much better than those years after Hummel and co graduated.

I feel like even when you guys are playing well, the series is usually pretty even looking back historically.

Unlike MSU, we didn’t lose any bad conference games. We only lost 4 conference games and all 4 were on the road against teams that are in the tournament. Sure it would’ve been nice to win at Minnesota but that’s always a tough place to win. And yeah if we lose to Villanova in the second round I’m not going to be bummed out about the overall season. They’re a good team with a proven coach. All it takes is an off game from Carsen and we’re toast. So what is okay for me to consider a successful season without it being pathetic? I’d love to hear your explanation.

I’ll take “backing into a split B1G title” in a rebuilding year any day of the week. Beating IU is always a plus (even though lately it’s been almost a sure thing) but I’d easily trade that for a solid tournament run. Not sure why you seem to be discounting what Purdue did in conference play this year. I think even the most biased observers wouldn’t claim that Purdue backed into anything.

Gordon no question. He had a much better all around game than Romeo.

Even losing to Nova in the second round I’d be happy with the season Purdue had.

Lucky? Lol. Painter and company deserve a lot of credit for turning things around after the non-conference. And it wasn’t largely due to luck or things falling into place. That’s bogus.

It all will depend on Carsen for sure. The way I see it, I think Purdue has already overachieved quite a bit this year. Easily one of the best coaching jobs Painter has had at Purdue. Would be nice to win at least a few tournament games but an early round upset wouldn’t surprise me. This team is very different than last years team obviously.

Carmel embarrassing Penn early on. Up 20-5.

Overrated all season? There was a pretty good stretch where they weren’t even ranked for a while until well into the conference season. Lol

Remind me again why we’re comparing two very different basketball players?

What are the winning lottery numbers?

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