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Wisconsin Goes down!

This takes some shine off the win on Sunday.....and likely makes it a 2 horse race between ILL and Purdue for the conference.

Tough games for ILL include @MSU, @ Maryland, @ Wisconsin, @ PSU, @ Iowa, and Purdue at home.

Purdue's toughest remaining games are @ ILL, @ OSU, @ Michigan, and MSU and Wisconsin at home.

I'd much rather have Purdue's schedule between the 2.
 
This takes some shine off the win on Sunday.....and likely makes it a 2 horse race between ILL and Purdue for the conference.

Tough games for ILL include @MSU, @ Maryland, @ Wisconsin, @ PSU, @ Iowa, and Purdue at home.

Purdue's toughest remaining games are @ ILL, @ OSU, @ Michigan, and MSU and Wisconsin at home.

I'd much rather have Purdue's schedule between the 2.
I think the Indiana game also looms large for Purdue because of timing.

The Hoosiers are in desperation mode. This weekend's game offers a chance to redirect their entire season. I expect Purdue to take care of business at home, but I also expect this game to be a 40-minute fight.
 
I think the Indiana game also looms large for Purdue because of timing.

The Hoosiers are in desperation mode. This weekend's game offers a chance to redirect their entire season. I expect Purdue to take care of business at home, but I also expect this game to be a 40-minute fight.

Agree, hard to get up for a team you just waxed on their court. So I look for more fight out of iu, a Purdue team playing just ok.....which will be still good enough for the win.

But what I would like to see is a blowout with a whole lot of Berg & company.
 
Agree, hard to get up for a team you just waxed on their court. So I look for more fight out of iu, a Purdue team playing just ok.....which will be still good enough for the win.

But what I would like to see is a blowout with a whole lot of Berg & company.
I think Purdue will take the game seriously and come out ready. They've come too far to get punked now. But, I also think we'll see Indiana's best effort. Not sure we saw that in Bloomington.
 
I’ll be curious what the standings look like come Sunday evening. We have 5 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Lot will be moving around with Illinois and Wisconsin both playing the early games.

Painter said it a number of years ago but winning the conference title comes down to taking care of business at home and stealing a few on the road. We got one of the steaks against Wisconsin.
 
This takes some shine off the win on Sunday.....and likely makes it a 2 horse race between ILL and Purdue for the conference.

Tough games for ILL include @MSU, @ Maryland, @ Wisconsin, @ PSU, @ Iowa, and Purdue at home.

Purdue's toughest remaining games are @ ILL, @ OSU, @ Michigan, and MSU and Wisconsin at home.

I'd much rather have Purdue's schedule between the 2.
To this point, last year’s Purdue schedule was backloaded with many of the toughest games down the stretch. This year, that does not appear to be the case.

ESPN ranks Purdue’s schedule to date as the toughest in the nation, but its remaining schedule as 57th most difficult. It also ranks Illinois’ schedule to date as 47th toughest and its remaining schedule as 24th. The one advantage that Illinois has is that it hosts Purdue in the rematch, but Purdue is positioned well.
 
To this point, last year’s Purdue schedule was backloaded with many of the toughest games down the stretch. This year, that does not appear to be the case.

ESPN ranks Purdue’s schedule to date as the toughest in the nation, but its remaining schedule as 57th most difficult. It also ranks Illinois’ schedule to date as 47th toughest and its remaining schedule as 24th. The one advantage that Illinois has is that it hosts Purdue in the rematch, but Purdue is positioned well.
For sure. Illinois has a tough road ahead prior to Purdue. Wouldn’t be surprised if they slipped up once or twice.
 
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