Nice win tho it seemed like we were playing in mud till the middle of third Quarter. Wisc is very young and not very good at all. We will know a lot about this team after the next two games. OSU will be steaming after getting routed at MSU, a team we just beat convincingly. Then at Indiana and MSU. Might lose all threee, might???
Still say NIT.
Despite Purdue now being 12-6, 3-1, its NCAA résumé is ... bad, to put it mildly.
The biggest résumé issues are bad losses - Maine (RPI 102), Villanova (95) and Southern Illinois (189) and IUPUI (80) - combined with only one quality win. That's Michigan State (32), which got an RPI boost after beating OSU. Purdue's second- and third-best wins are Penn State (84) and Central Michigan (104). Nine of its wins are against teams with RPI 143 or worse, with five of them at least 220. Ten of Purdue's 12 wins are against plus-100s. Purdue has only played one team in the RPI top-25, Stanford at 12.
There are a few games left against RPI-boosters, like Ohio State, MSU (on the road), Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota and Northwestern (all top-50 RPIs). But Purdue, which has an RPI of about 100 right now, might have to win at least five of those six to get its RPI into the 50s by the end of the year. But how many of those six can it win? And it'd have to not slip up elsewhere, like at IU, PSU, Iowa, etc.
Simply put: Purdue has a huge hill to climb because of the early bad losses.