College basketball's 25 duds of the past 25 years
From multiple blue-blood sightings to historic upsets to, yes, Kevin Durant's lone year at Texas -- these seasons were absolute letdowns.
We are #3 !!
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This should be labeled disappointing **Postseasons.
How can Purdue be number 3 when they went from unranked, and predicted to be middle of the pack in the B1G aka a “rebuilding year”, and not have a top recruiting class to all of a sudden ranked 1 a lot of the year and hover in the top 5 all season, win the B1G by the largest margin in a while and also win the BTT?
Agree that it was a top disappointing postseason, but this is just lazy by Medcalf…usually he’s a bit better than this. But it’s espn at the end of the day and the content/writing has gone downhill over the years.
How can Purdue be number 3 when they went from unranked, and predicted to be middle of the pack in the B1G aka a “rebuilding year”, and not have a top recruiting class to all of a sudden ranked 1 a lot of the year and hover in the top 5 all season, win the B1G by the largest margin in a while and also win the BTT?
Agree that it was a top disappointing postseason, but this is just lazy by Medcalf…usually he’s a bit better than this. But it’s espn at the end of the day and the content/writing has gone downhill over the years.
ESPN looks at these from a national perspective. A team that won their league, their league tournament and was ranked # 1 at times flaming out versus a #16 seed is seen nationally as a huge dud. When you have firecrackers they can be working great ( Like Purdue’s season) then one suddenly does now work ( Purdues NCAA tournament).
This writer doesn't seem to be taking into account that Purdue's smoke and mirrors record was the direct result of possibly the easiest big ten schedule of all time.
And not considering that non-conf schedule has several wins against underperforming, overrated, and teams not playing well at the time.
Also not considering an underperforming and very injured IU team, despite having the best all around player in the country, completely dominated Purdue in two games thus giving the very easy and basic blueprint to beat the '23 team.
And not considering that non-conf schedule has several wins against underperforming, overrated, and teams not playing well at the time.
Also not considering an underperforming and very injured IU team, despite having the best all around player in the country, completely dominated Purdue in two games thus giving the very easy and basic blueprint to beat the '23 team.
Try not to wet your clownpants.
Lol guarantee IU would not have beat Duke, Gonzaga or Marquette at those points in the season. IUs best wins non conf were maybe at Xavier (who could be argued weren’t playing their best yet) or maybe against an overrated UNC team at IU? With your reasoning you could also say IU got dominated by *overrated* Arizona and KU teams.
IU had all the chances in the world to win the league. They got swept by NU (blew a huge lead at NU), a blowout loss at PSU and swept by Iowa (blow out loss at IU and lost a 20 pt lead at Iowa) and barely beat a Minnesota intramural team at Minnesota.
Then they lost their first game vs PSU in the BTT…they did finally get that first tournament win in 7 years, though.
Still won the big ten by 3 games when team was projected to be middle of the road. IU did less with more once again…
Jealous poster here. Sad.
Coming to a rival board trying to cut down the B10 champs.
After the iu fail this AGAIN last year. I guess being the undisputed self appointed summer champs every year, only to see your team fail every year for over a decade, kinda makes these iu guys bat crap crazy. LOL
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Tjd won nothing in his career at iu....edey stole the npoy from him, big ten championship, tournament championship too....plus edey has one more year here....that's gotta hurt your beloved....
Surprised your 2012-2013 Hoosiers weren’t on here with all that preseason hype and two top 5 players drafted. Barely beat a temple team in round of 32 and then lost to a 2-3 zone in the S16. Zeller should have gone to UNC and not wasted his talent at IU. But per usual, that’s the norm the past 20 years with all these “top recruits” IU gets. Always winning that offseason to only be disappointed in March.
Or on second thought…maybe it wasn’t a disappointment after all. IU celebrated with “getting to the S16” rings!
Consistantly the best recruiting in the B1G over many years, and all you have to show for it is a bunch of whiny excuses from the IU fan base. It's Indinia!
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