Projected 4 seed

[PaBoiler78]

Ethan Morton might just celebrating knocking Indinia out of the tournament as his swan song tonight.

BTW, in case you didn't watch that game, he was awful, outside of cherry-picking for a dagger dunk when Utah State left him all alone.

not many accurate shooters from Butler ( Pa.)

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

SEC Tournament hasn't disappointed - top 4 seeds get to the semis. #4 Tennessee takes out Auburn and awaits the winner of Florida (2)/Alabama (3), who are locked in a good one, 46-45 Gators under a minute in the first half.

 

[tjreese]

I don't know if this is Painter's worst coaching job, but I agree the defense completely unraveled down the stretch.

For all the talk about the offense stagnating and the need for more scoring off the bench, the defense has been the big story, in my opinion.

Right or wrong it has been well noted that Matt gives a lot of freedom to his coaches and part of the reason why coaches want to go to Purdue. That said Johnson and Lusk handle the defense. Both have coached a lot on that side of the ball for winning teams that played good D.

The D has been bad as we all know. Losing Jacobsen hurt, but individual D has to improve. We see a step towards that with Giccari, CJ and West from what I understand. Losing Jacobsen and Catchings were two players that Purdue thought they would be able to play at this time last year and although Catchings wouldn’t help on the D and what we know now wouldn’t help on O without an attitude adjustment, but Jacobsen would have helped.

Top programs can get good bigs and there are a bunch of 6’8” and smaller players that are good. The next couple of months will be interesting to see what Purdue does concerning the portal.