It’s the “if they don’t this year, they never will” comment. The 2019 team was maybe Painter’s 5th or 6th most talented team and they were less than a second away from the F4. If it doesn’t happen this year, it can and will happen at some point.
They’ve lost 2 non-conference games the last 3 years combined. Officiating isn’t hurting them when they’re not in conference. Not sure why people magically think it’s different when they aren’t playing B1G teams.
Based on his past tournaments, he’s been called for 0 fouls, 1 foul, 2 fouls (twice), and 3 fouls. The 3-foul game was when he backed up Trevion. So I’m curious why you think it’ll be different this tournament than his past ones?
Again, they didn’t lose before the conference started so this whole “once they get away from Big Ten refs” idea doesn’t hold any weight. Edey has yet to be in serious foul trouble in any of the NCAA tournament games he’s played in so why would that magically change this year?
You realize it’s not some big conspiracy right? The folks that claim he’s getting preferential treatment in conference play either don’t realize or forget that they didn’t lose in non-conference against one of the hardest schedules in the country. We can win ugly if we have to.
Oh no doubt. The recipe to beat Purdue is hope you shoot lights out from 3 and hope the refs let you get away with hacking Edey. Or hope that we have an off night shooting the ball but that was a bigger issue last year than this year.