Purdue waits its entire existence to be ranked first in the country. It will last only one week. They lose tonight to Rutgers. There goes the Dawgs chance to knock of the nation's number one team on the 18th.
Why couldn't they wait until next week to barely scrounge up 68 points? Ending was tons of fun and I'm now sure they're gonna drop 100 on us. Also, kudos to Rutgers fans, that was one of the best court storms I've ever seen.
Marquette also has put together a good non conference resume in Shaka first year Sent from my iPhone using Butler Hoops mobile app
The ending of the Purdue-Rutgers game was electric. Ron Harper Jr. absolutely willed them to victory down the stretch. What a great end to a game. Harper's performance reminded me of watching Kamar or Rosie just ascending to a higher level in crunch time and dominating the close of a game. Winning mentality is a real thing, and hopefully the young guys can continue to develop the mindset as they gain experience.
Houston 82 Alabama 83 St. Bonaventure 64 Connecticut 74 (N) BYU 71 Creighton 83 (N) Syracuse 75 Georgetown 79 UCLA 67 Marquette 56 Penn St. 64 Michigan St. 80 Arkansas 66 Oklahoma 88 (N) Central Connecticut 53 Providence 68 Troy 75 Tennessee Tech 72 TCU 68 Texas A&M 64 (N) Cincinnati 63 Xavier 83
Villanova 36 Baylor 57 Purdue 82 N.C. State 72 (N) OT Rutgers 63 Seton Hall 77 Colgate 64 St. John's 82
Arizona St. 58 Creighton 57 Louisiana 56 Houston 71 DePaul 72 Illinois Chicago 66 Alabama A&M 57 Troy 66
Friday: Villanova 59 Creighton 79 Saturday: Providence 57 Connecticut 53 TCU 80 Georgetown 73 Central Arkansas 70 Missouri St. 106 Houston 72 Oklahoma St. 61 (N) Texas A&M 83 Oregon St. 73 Pittsburgh 59 St. John's 57 Arkansas Baptist 64 Troy 84 Eastern Illinois 54 Western Illinois 71 Marquette 71 Xavier 80
Seton Hall, as the #15 team in the country, forfeited its game against St John’s tonight. Good Lord, I hope this doesn’t become a “thing” this year. The Johnnies are riding high off their “upset” going into their next game against Butler on Thursday. Sent from my iPhone using Butler Hoops
Hendrix 56 Central Arkansas 90 Incarnate Word 59 Purdue 79 My data isn't pulling in the forfeited games, just FYI. Creighton has a forfeit win over DePaul too. If DePaul and Seton Hall, scheduled to play each other later this week, still can't field healthy teams, they *both* get a forfeit loss per Big East policy. So the conference standings W/L won't add up. EDIT: apparently DePaul has already forfeited that game too, so the double-forfeit scenario is merely hypothetical, as Seton Hall has already bounced back from its forfeit loss.
