Observations:
--Yes w. illinois well coached and sure knew how to head fake and drive. When they started hitting their 3's they were in it tho I did not think Purdue was ever in real danger of losing.
--This is not that young of a team. Karissa is a jr, Harris and Odem seniors and they are key. But we do have a lot of young parts and maybe more when Grant and Hardin return.
--Farquar is a beast. I would give her mvp honors today. Harris had 17 rebounds.
--After looking like she figured it out, Traylor took 2 shots.
--Mololo must be high on V's list as she was in there down the stretch.
--Wilby is a bit over aggressive but has been giving some good minutes.
--Part of the problem today was that we missed a ton of wide open shots. Had we shot more in line with our averages it would have been a blow out.
--We did play very good D in the first half, then weakened at the end.
--Worst thing again--scads of turnovers, many unforced. This will be our Achilles in the BT if we don't clean it up. Very bad today.
--Still think this is a top five BT team and will squeeze in the Dance, but maybe not make much noise. But it is early like the men and there is still a lot of experimenting going on.