Harvard game

[boilerman101]

Harvard comes calling today, for the Lady Boilers home opener. The Crimson were crushed 103-58 last Friday at Notre Dame. Hopefully, Purdue will have the same result, today. Purdue doing the crushing, that is.

Game: Harvard at Purdue, WBB
Date & Time: Sunday, 11/11/18 at 2pmET

Game notes:
https://purduesports.com/documents/2018/11/10/181110_Harvard_Notes.pdf

TV: BTN+

Radio Stream: WBPE BOB-FM 95.3 Lafayette w/Tim Newton & crew:
http://wbpefm.com/listen-live

Live Stats:
https://purduesports.com/sidearmstats/wbball/summary

Harvard's visit:
https://purduesports.com/news/2018/...ner-brings-harvard-to-mackey.aspx?path=wbball

The first game on regular TV will be Thur, 11/15 on BTN at 7pm, when Western Illinois comes to town.

Go Boilers!

 

[illiniboiler]

Hey, thanks for this. I wrote game stories for the first two, but all the info we need is on this site. Boilers look initially more promising than most thought.
Here is another good story site: https://purduesports.com/news/2018/11/6/womens-basketball-purdue-opens-season-on-the-road.aspx

 

[pman66]

Harvard comes calling today, for the Lady Boilers home opener. The Crimson were crushed 103-58 last Friday at Notre Dame. Hopefully, Purdue will have the same result, today. Purdue doing the crushing, that is.

Game: Harvard at Purdue, WBB
Date & Time: Sunday, 11/11/18 at 2pmET

Game notes:
https://purduesports.com/documents/2018/11/10/181110_Harvard_Notes.pdf

TV: BTN+

Radio Stream: WBPE BOB-FM 95.3 Lafayette w/Tim Newton & crew:
http://wbpefm.com/listen-live

Live Stats:
https://purduesports.com/sidearmstats/wbball/summary

Harvard's visit:
https://purduesports.com/news/2018/...ner-brings-harvard-to-mackey.aspx?path=wbball

The first game on regular TV will be Thur, 11/15 on BTN at 7pm, when Western Illinois comes to town.

Go Boilers!

Purdue "crushed" Harvard 66 to 65

 

[illiniboiler]

Since you can now read the story on the two sites above, no need to recount, but this was a gutsy Purdue win which could easily have been a loss against what looked like and impressive Harvard team. Harvard totally outplayed the Boilers in the first quarter and for the first half and even when down 9 in the third, Purdue looked dead in the water. But they hustled and muscled their way back. Most interesting to me was the fact that the Crimson bigs were killing us and Purdue adjusted to minimize that which probably won the game. They better learn that when they confront the BT bigs they will see a lot. Of course, the victory does seem paltry when compared to ND spanking this same team by 50. How sad that the teams that once fought toe to toe for a national championship are now eons apart. But this is what we got, the 2-0 Boilers.

 

[DocRon]

Since you can now read the story on the two sites above, no need to recount, but this was a gutsy Purdue win which could easily have been a loss against what looked like and impressive Harvard team. Harvard totally outplayed the Boilers in the first quarter and for the first half and even when down 9 in the third, Purdue looked dead in the water. But they hustled and muscled their way back. Most interesting to me was the fact that the Crimson bigs were killing us and Purdue adjusted to minimize that which probably won the game. They better learn that when they confront the BT bigs they will see a lot. Of course, the victory does seem paltry when compared to ND spanking this same team by 50. How sad that the teams that once fought toe to toe for a national championship are now eons apart. But this is what we got, the 2-0 Boilers.

As for comparing our score against Harvard to ND's, who can explain sports? You only have to look at our football team... the team that lost to Nebraska 28-53 and Maryland 13-42 pummeled our football team 41-10 last Saturday. Go figure! Anything can happen on any given day.

All we can ask is for our young women to put out effort to win every game and so far they have done that, even after an almost disastrous 1st Q like they had on Sunday. I still look forward to following them this year albeit with modest expectations.

BTW, has anyone else noticed how trim and in-shape Coach Versyp looks? I hope that speaks nothing but good things about her battle with her breast cancer diagnosis. Very happy for her.
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[illiniboiler]

Good words Doc Ron
Yes so far a fun team to watch
Yes very glad for coach v on that most important level

 

[BoilerStutz]

I attended the North Central vs. Lawrence North girls game last night. I think there was more talent in that gym, including Rikki Harris who is head to OSU, then on the entire Purdue roster. I trust someone from Purdue was at the game, and that there is some sort of plan to improve our woeful recruiting and even worse retention. Purdue should run Harvard out of the gym, and we should be as good as if not better than ND. And Bobinski needs to act after this year if clear improvement does not take place.

 

[DocRon]

I attended the North Central vs. Lawrence North girls game last night. I think there was more talent in that gym, including Rikki Harris who is head to OSU, then on the entire Purdue roster. I trust someone from Purdue was at the game, and that there is some sort of plan to improve our woeful recruiting and even worse retention. Purdue should run Harvard out of the gym, and we should be as good as if not better than ND. And Bobinski needs to act after this year if clear improvement does not take place.

I know you are anxious to see Versyp gone and I understand that. And admittedly I know nothing about Indiana High School WBB. But for you to say that “there is more talent” between two high school teams than on “the entire Purdue roster” is ludicrous. I would love to see those teams play against Harris (Defensive B1G POY last year as a sophomore who was 10/10 from the field today) along with McLaughlin and Frosh Hardin (four 3 pointers today) and their teammates. But obviously that will never happen and you have a right to your opinion.
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