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No different than @BruceDouglas or @Purdue7 posting on here recently IMO. To me, bad timing would’ve been right after the second game against you guys.

Always fun to go back through to see who was spot on and who was way off lol.

That first T on Fernandes was awful and then the one against Heide was just as bad but had to be called to keep it even. Just atrocious offficiating.

That was wild. Legit sounded like a Purdue home game.

Nope just a defense optional game haha.

Yeah those losses haven’t been good but even with them, Illinois doesn’t hold a candle to Purdue the last 20 years lol. Illinois fans would trade places with Purdue in a heartbeat.

I agree that Purdue isn’t his “everything” but I don’t know if I’d agree about the not moving the needle component. Purdue is viewed much more favorably with him now than they were a year ago and I think plenty of factors weigh into that including our ranking, roster construction/building through HS not the portal, and relationships with the coaching staff. If you look at everything he’s said he wants in a program, Purdue fits it to a T.

Wasn’t sure where to post this but looks like James Hardy IV committed to Purdue as a preferred walk-on. His dad was such a fun player to watch and it’s still so sad how things ended for him. Thought y'all would like to know.

I know we’ve flamed out early a few times the last few years but the arrogance of Illinois fans is off the charts for a program that hasn’t made the second weekend in almost 20 years.

Dude is so talented but he’s a headcase.

Couldn’t have happened to a better coach and team lol.

Domask gets away with a lot when he’s backing defenders down. Lucky they don’t call it.

Glaring holes they took advantage of? We gave up 61 points. They triple teamed Edey and hoped we’d shoot so poorly we’d lose and it happened. Saying 75 at best out of 100 is way off for any 16 seed versus a 1 (even one with holes like we had last year). It’d be one thing if we gave up 80 points and couldn’t stop them. We simply couldn’t hit WIDE open shots. We win that 99 times out of 100.

I don’t disagree but that’s part of the randomness of the tournament. We win that game last year 99 out of 100 times but we had an awful shooting night and lost. It happens.

I could see us not making it out of the first weekend and I can see us making a Final Four. Just depends on the matchups like you said. If we have an off night shooting and another team is on fire, could be a quick exit.

Oh I’d def give it to UConn but even with the loss today, Purdue still doesn’t have a bad loss. Still easily on the 1 seed line.

Still not that crazy as they took more than double the threes as we did.

+9 isn’t even that big of an advantage lol. And we got beat because of too many turnovers and not enough 3-point shooting. That’s the recipe for our losses this year.

I’d argue they’re a talented team who underachieved all year. We get everyone’s best game and they happened to play really well today. It happens.

He needs to hit the weight room big time this offseason.

Game after a coach gets fired you never know what could happen. OSU has talent and it showed today.

Purdue will still be top 25 next year without Edey.

They seem pretty meh to me too.

Did you see the play where Garcia just trucked Loyer to the ground and Loyer got called for the foul when Garcia tripped over him? Woof that was bad.