Looks like 2 of you just took huge hits. Purdue beat by a #16 seed. BRUTAL!!! It's such a crazy year though, none of the teams are dominant. Still anyone's game at this point as points should go up each round. It's all going to depend on who gets the most teams in the Final Four IMO.
Yeap thats me 🙋♂️ Purdue was considered the best team most of this year I think weren’t they? This is what you get when you make picks based on your heart not your head..I think Matt Painter coached for 2 years when I was at SIU, awesome coach. What in the f was this. Wasn’t this the second time or maybe 3rd that a 1 lost to a 16? SMH. You’re right the field is very even which is awesome, bud a 1 losing to a 16 shouldn’t happen. Fack.
@OG…I’ll run this again next year and remind you to get in. And yes, for ESPN there’s now 0 perfect brackets out of 20 million.
2nd time in history. 16 seeds were 1-150 in history and Virginia a couple years ago lost to a 16 seed for the first time. Purdue lost last year to st Peter's who was a 15 seed. Weak sauce. Funny thing is they had the tallest guy in college at 7'4" and FD had the smallest team in the country. Their biggest guy was 6'6" and edey (7 foot dude) got 1 shot attempt in the last 12 minutes. Painter is getting fired...no doubt.
So just learned Painter actually played PG for Purdue for 4 seasons, while Bruce Webber was an assistant to Keady. They both came to SIU and absolutely killed it. Painter was an assistant under Bruce till he left for IL, his one year as my schools coach he was MVC coach of the year, and had us ranked #15 in the nation, which is huge of course for a mid major. Wheelz you prob remember those Saluki teams, we were stacked back then and the MVC had creighton (& Kyle korver) and Wichita state, so was a really good conference . When he left it all fell apart. The guy can coach and recruit, he’s 413-197 career at Purdue, last two seasons being his best w 29 wins. He’s likely not going anywhere anytime soon IMO…but yeah today was his worst loss ever that’s for sure.
Yep that conference was stacked as a mid major. Nobody wanted to book them as part of theor non conference schedule in the beginning of the year. Parity was good back them. Probably right but it hasn't been a good look. 2021 they lost to a 13 seed, last year to a 15 seed and this year to a 16 seed. They've had good seasons but theor tourny runs have been horrible.
We couldn’t get anyone to play us..even Webber, who was at SIU for quite a while, refused to schedule his own protégée /former team..despite knowing how much even just playing us would mean to the program. I remember reading an article in our school newspaper discussing it and being pissed off lol. We almost played IL in the tourney but they lost and we advanced..IL was my team growing up , so of course wanted to see them play each other.
Anyways I hear ya, his tournament losses have been a big black eye. Just feel like being an alumni player, coming off two big seasons and the fact that Gene Keady was there for an eternity, they may give him some more time.
Regardless..my brackets are bust , that was prob my quickest exit ever lol.
