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Kravitz: Purdue’s senior season ends on an embarrassing note after losing to Fairleigh Dickinson

March 18, 2023 mohmad free

Columbus, Ohio – Zack Eddy sat in front of his locker late Friday night at the Nationwide Arena. The soon-to-be Player of the Year spoke quietly, wistfully, about the disappointment of his team’s historically ignominious loss to Purdue etched on his face. He couldn’t believe that the Boilers, who won the Big Ten title by three, who won the conference championship, who came to this NCAA tournament, a top seed who was about to make a deep run, were embarrassed in a way that had only been done once before…

No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson stuns No. 1 Purdue in a historic NCAA tournament upset

March 18, 2023 mohmad free

Fairleigh Dickinson made history on Friday, becoming the second-ever 16th seed to beat a top seed in the NCAA Tournament with a 63-58 win over Purdue. Here’s what you need to know: The No. 16 seed had a 1-150 all-time record in the Round of 64 going into Friday. The Knights are the first team to complete the feat since UMBC shocked Virginia in 2018. Fairleigh Dickinson will face the winning No. 8 Memphis-No. 9 FAU in the second round Sunday. This story will be updated. required reading (Photo: Rick…

March Mad Odds: Houston, Alabama, Kansas favored to win the NCAA Tournament

March 13, 2023 mohmad free

Alabama is the No. 1 seed going into the 2023 NCAA Tournament, but the Crimson Tide aren’t the favorites to cut corners. The Houston Cougars finished the regular season 31-3 and are the big favorites (+550) on BetMGM. On Sunday, Memphis beat the Cougars 75-65 in the American Collegiate Athletic Conference title game. Kansas (+800), Alabama (+800), Purdue (+1100) and UCLA (+1200) are the other teams close to the top spot. The 2023 Final Four will take place on Saturday, April 1, and the championship game will be played on…

Zack Eddy carried Purdue through the Big Ten. Will you make it to the NCAA Tournament?

March 11, 2023 mohmad free

Chicago – No other team in the country has Zack Eddy, which is what makes Purdue such a unique team. Boilermakers preparation is difficult because you can’t replicate what it feels like to climb up against a 7-foot-4 indoor existence. As Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann said after he went out on the wrong side in a game against Purdue for the third time this season, “He just planted there, and he sticks.” The injury-depleted Buckeyes didn’t have enough bodies to throw at him, so they ended up playing him…

Kravitz: Perdue rises from the rumble unscathed, finding some of what was missing

March 10, 2023 mohmad free

CHICAGO – Mojo may be back for Season 1. maybe. maybe? Purdue has been looking for it for two weeks after going 22-1 on February 1, only to split its last eight regular season games while looking like a team that lost its edge. Then came the Boilers’ first Big Ten championship game on Friday, thanks to another double bye for the program, and Purdue found some of what it had been missing over the past two weeks. Playing against a Rutgers team that was Kryptonite – the Scarlet Knights…

NCAA Tournament Bracket Watch: Can Gonzaga snatch the second seed?

March 8, 2023 mohmad free

The big questions Tuesday night revolved around three of the mid-majors. Can St. Mary’s score an impressive win over Gonzaga in the Football World Cup championship game, confirming that the Gaels’ strong computer numbers deserve a correspondingly high rating? And will Oral Roberts and/or Charleston win their respective conference championships, or will they go to Selection Sunday in hopes of getting a big bid? Consider answering these questions definitively. Charleston outlasted UNC Wilmington in the CAA title game for their 30th win against a Division One. Meanwhile, Oral Roberts completed…

Northwestern stuns No. 1 Purdue, handing the Boilermakers their second loss in 3 games

February 12, 2023 mohmad free

Northwestern defeated No. 1 Purdue 64-58 on Sunday. Here’s what you need to know: Northwestern guard Boo Bouie led all players with 26 points and game-clinching steals before dropping the game’s final free throws to seal the Wildcats victory. Boiler makers lost…

Gary Barta says Kevin Warren’s departure won’t delay Big Ten plans to shake up the football schedule

February 3, 2023 mohmad free

The departure of Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren will not delay the conference’s plans to change the alignment of the football schedule for the 2024 season, Iowa director of athletics Gary Barta said Thursday. For many years, conference and school officials debated changing or partially ending the east-west alignment to have a fairer championship game. There was momentum to enact changes for the 2023 season to coincide with a new media rights agreement until USC and UCLA accepted Big Ten invitations starting August 2, 2024. Conference officials decided in October…

NCAA Tournament Bracket Watch: Alabama is the top seed. Northwestern and Clemson

January 13, 2023 mohmad free

“They can’t imagine it… that someone like me would walk into their house, walk on their land…” – Cassian Andor When compiling this week’s segment, we were astounded by the inclusion of teams we’d never expected to have considered as recently as a few weeks ago. North-west? Pittsburgh? Clemson? UCF? wait … Is that true? It also got us thinking about another story focusing on underdogs who took the power structure by surprise: “Andor,” our favorite TV series of 2022. After the train wreck that was “The Book of Boba…

College basketball rankings: Illinois out, Miami in. And hey, New Mexico!

December 26, 2022 mohmad free

Merry Christmas after Christmas! I trust that the holiday treated everyone well, though there were a few precious college basketball games that caught our eye. As a result, there wasn’t much movement on top of the polls. The good news is that there are plenty of great matches to be shown this week, which top the list for Saturday’s packed New Year’s Eve. In the meantime, allow me to spread my usual holiday cheer by presenting the correct ranking of the top 25 college basketball teams, as presented to the…