A lot of the pundits kept talking about how 'Baylor scores a lot of points' & 'The Big 12 is a lot "quicker" game than the Big 10' & 'The Boilermakers are all so young they will be "dazzled" by the big stage'. And of course, the young "slow" Boilers came out and scored 46 points in the first half (and blew a golden opportunity at the end of the half) and were up by 19. I don't think that the Big12 must play much defense. The Boilermakers had lots of wide open three point shots and they were clearly very frustrated that they couldn't do the "one pass and shoot" offense.
Purdue kind of struggled for a couple of streches in the second half but the lead never got under 10 and in fact the final (90-79) might have been as close as Baylor got.
On to the second round against Xavier. I don't know much about them but they are the #3 seed in the bracket and Purdue is the #6. Apparently, the committee that seeded the bracket thought that they are better (I did hear that they are very "similar" to Purdue just "older"). Hopefully, Purdue's defense can frustrate them too. That game is Saturday @ 4:45 (ET) or so. Please don't call during the game :-)
8 years ago
Ok, we will not call on Sat. during the game. we might be off spending some of your money anyway. I am going to get them thier stoller and buy our grandaughter a mobile!! She needs one!
ReplyDeleteGo Boilermakers! I think Purdue is highly underrated in this tournament, I live in Big 12 country but follow the Big 10, I knew they could handle it. In fact, the Big Ten is 3-0 right now, so I hope Indiana does well to make it 4-0. Personally, I think the Big Ten got a little slighted in the seeding. Oh...and did you hear you might have Porterfield neighbors in Carmel???
ReplyDeleteYey Boilers!!! I didn't fill out a bracket this year, but now I guess I should have 'cause I would have gotten at least one right! :)
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