Gold and Black Radio: Christmas Eve edition--Purdue hoops talk and much more
Purdue hoops talk and more with host Derek Schultz and GoldandBlack.com basketball expert Brian Neubert.
Purdue hoops (excerpt from Brian Neubert’s Three Thoughts column)
Purdue’s fine, folks, fine by the standards of being a very, very good team, but one that just happened to play a non-conference schedule — as a marked team for its opponents — that can easily make very, very good teams look just OK.
The SEC is clearly the best conference in men’s basketball this year and it’s not close. Purdue has played five games against it. Its strength will buoy Purdue’s résumé all season, and those Alabama and Ole Miss wins will age well even as their league starts chopping one another up.
The Boilermakers are only No. 36 in the NET rankings right now, but that number should drift upward as it starts getting wins in conference play and the SEC teams all play one another and boost each others’ metrics.
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But Purdue does need to get on a run here to start Big Ten play and get that win total and conference title run humming.
Purdue over-scheduled in Year 1 post-Zach Edey. The nobility in that is weighted against the occasional impracticality of it.
It has to turn out to have been worth it, but with the computers and the product on the floor. It’s not often that things gets easier when Big Ten play starts, but here it is. Purdue’s three losses thus far have come top top-13 teams in this week’s AP poll, all of them away from Mackey Arena.
Purdue’s very good, though it’s record may not necessarily reflect it as it has in prior years.
