That was me!
Or rather, my son attended NU and graduated in 2021. He's absolutely fired up and was in attendance (travelled from Charlotte, NC to Evanston for the game with a couple of his close friends). The team is overachieving this year, as they often cannot throw the ball in the ocean, but their defense is extremely good. Boo Bouie is having a first team Big-Ten year and Chase Audige is a talented athlete, probably will make the Big 10 first team defense who has spurts of offensive greatness sandwiched with a bunch of dumbass mistakes (NU's version of Jaylen Brown circa 2018 - <ducking>). The rest of the players are nice cogs in a machine, but they can all play defense.
Purdue appears to be collapsing. I went to the game at Maryland last night and they completely fell apart in the second half.
Yeah, collapsing may be overly harsh, but they just seemed completely incapable of stopping Maryland or generating any consistent offense for most of the second half.
I either posted somewhere here or Tweeted last week about Purdue being the face of all fades come March. Their backcourt is Mid-American Conference level is the phrase I used. Classic example of a team peaking early for one, but you need great guard play in the tournament and they will be a high seed yet likely having an inferior backcourt in most of their tournament games. Edey is a great college player but that team isn’t going anywhere deep.
What Bar is this? I'd definitely go for their first round game this year (my son plans to travel to the venue of the first weekend of games to watch NU)
That bar has apparently changed ownership and is no longer an NU place. My son tells me the new place is Hops N Scotch in Brookline
You don’t see many HC have 5 consecutive losing seasons anymore as they are typically long gone by then……but talk about a coach having a contract year! Chris Freakin Collins!
Right? He's been pretty terrible, to be honest. His recruiting isn't bad, but his teams have really not performed very well and a lot of it, in my view, is due to his substandard in-game coaching decisions. Helps to have 2 seniors in the backcourt with a lot of experience (Bouie and Audige) who have really stepped up this year. Their team defense has been absolutely phenomenal.
The craziest thing here is that Miller will probably not face any legal repercussions, enter the draft and be a lottery pick……while Oats is the one in trouble for his handling of the situation to the press. Bizarro
Miller is certainly the most culpable. The DA has already said they can’t find anything to charge him with. I guess my standards were slightly higher for the adult in charge of these kids. But I shouldn’t be surprised by any coach these days. At least Oats could say they were disappointed Miller put himself in that position and he had no idea what Miles was going to do. It would be a lie of course but at least pretend to show some remorse to the victim and situation.
It’s surprising that in Alabama, a 19-year old can apparently throw a loaded gun in his car and drive it over to its owner, who was hanging out on the street outside a nightclub at 2am, without violating any laws. But apparently that’s the case. I could go either way on whether Miller should’ve been thrown off the team.
The bolded strikes me a a fairy bizarre framing of the issue.
Great finish in New Mexico with the Lobos and Aztecs going back and forth with final minute shot making prior to SDSt hitting the game winning 3 at the buzzer.
Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis is about to break Pete Maravich’s 53-year-old NCAA scoring record - The Boston Globe
He didn't do it unless some ferkatka post season tournament takes teams w/losing records.
The College Basketball Invitational (which I had never heard of before) does exactly that. I took a look at their brackets for the past few years and there have been several sub-500 teams invited. So I wouldn't be surprised if Detroit Mercy got an invite, especially with the additional attention Davis' participation would probably bring - for one game at least.
I'll be shocked if they don't pay it(or get a booster to pay). It's great for the program and the CBI.
If they hurry they can hire back Beard before Ole Miss does. Gotta act within a day though!
