After an up and down season (looking pretty good on occasion and down right terrible on others) the Purdue Boilermakers won the Big10 tournament today. They played three very good games and even though they fell behind in the second half today they came back and won. WooHoo!!
Of course, the NCAA tournament committee didn't exactly reward them. They must have watched the games last week. Purdue pretty well stunk up the last week of the season. So they have no one to blame but themselves. They ended up as a fifth seed (the tournament has a record of 5 seeds losing to 12 seeds in their first games). And if they win their first game they will likely have to play the Univ. of Washington in Portland Oregon. That's only about a three hour drive from the UW campus. And a plane flight from W. Lafayette. Ah well. If you are going to do anything in the tournament you have to beat good teams. They did at least get Thurs/Sat games so I don't have to worry about missing the game to go to the airport :-)
8 years ago
Hooray for Purdue! It still boggles my mind a little when I think too hard about the fact that the students I'm teaching are the same age as those guys.
ReplyDeleteI am very glad you will be able to come to the airport on Friday without you missing any games.
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