Northwestern actually knocked off Purdue yesterday?!? Wtf?

Yeah Purdue choked big time down the stretch. If you can pressure their guards you can give them trouble. Smith will do some crazy stupid things at times.

It's pretty amazing that the most dominant player in college basketball somehow didn't get fouled the last 7 and a half minutes of the game when he had shot 13 free throws prior to that. Very strange.

They made some mistakes for sure and missed some wide open shots but they dominated the game until suddenly Northwestern discovered how to play perfect defense against Edey without fouling in the last 7 minutes.

Well they better get adjusted to it. The refs are going to hold back on the whistle down the stretch in both the big 10 tournament and in the big tournament.

IU got treated the same by the vaunted Northwestern defense.

Brick didnt get to watch Purdue/Maryland. What was story?

Northwestern is going to lose at least 3 out of the next 5.

I'm not sure if the cats are that good or the rest of the B10 is not.

They may win the conference regular season

Would have never believed that IU could beat Purdue at their place with TJD being taken completely out of the game.

Hood-Schifino was the best player on the floor.

Brick, how you feeling about your Boilers going to tournaments? Have they peaked too early?

I am doubtful that any big 10 team plays past the sweet 16 this year.

I find it really surprising Pitt is leading their conference, beat at least three teams ahead of them and can't crack the top 25.

Congrats. They outplayed Purdue.

and congrats to you on finally not blaming the refs for a Purdue loss.

I feel great. Not worried at all about the past few weeks. It's still a one game tournament and anything can happen but the last IU game is the only one that I think was a concerning loss. The others were more about the #1 ranking than it was anything else.

I don't think they've peaked too early because they are one of the youngest teams out there. If anything, these are the growing pains they should have had in November.

I'd be concerned about Purdue's all freshman backcourt. Don't get me wrong, they've been great. But, tourney is all about guards and I don't know if I trust 2 freshmen to play well for 6 straight games with that kind of pressure.