Whoah! I didn't have much hope of coming home to a headline like this tonight. The Wildcats went into Lafayette and ruined Purdue's Senior Night 64-61, getting revenge for the teams' first matchup in Evanston, which the Boilers won by an almost identical 63-61 score. 'Cats are now 17-11 (8-9) with one game left at Ohio State before the Big Ten Tourney.
Bubble? I don't think there can be much doubt. This team has beaten Florida State, Ohio State (home), Michigan State (road), and now Purdue (road), as well as Minnesota when they were ranked. That's a pretty darn good resume.
In other news, I went to the Indiana vs. Michigan State game last night, another five dollar bargain home game (thank you, AD Fred Glass!!). The kids hung tough, despite losing leading scorer Devan Dumes in the early minutes of the game and having to play Brett Finkelmeier (note: look at that picture. Hah!) for seventeen agonizing minutes of bogged-down offense.
Athough the walk-on did a good job on defense, I seriously think we scored maybe twice the entire time he was in the game. It was so hard to watch. Here we were, hanging right in there with the best team in the Big Ten, and we literally couldn't run a play or score for half the game! Let's move on.
Verdell Jones played well, so did Nick Williams and Malik Story. I delivered pizza to Jones and Kellen Lewis tonight. In a row. Weird, huh?
IU trailed by only a deuce with less than a minute left after Williams, my favorite Hoosier frosh, buried a baseline three. But Raymar Morgan had a disgustingly awesome putback dunk that pretty much sealed it, ruining an excellent Indiana defensive stand. Senior Night was a nice tribute to Kyle Taber as well as the senior cheerleaders and band members. Highlights here.
On a tangent, have you ever wondered what happened to your favorite college basketball players?
Great New York Times article on one of my favorite guys, West Virginia's Kevin Pitsnogle, here.
List of former CBB stars playing overseas here. Khalid El-Amin is in the Ukraine these days! And Bracey Wright is, I hope, riding the pine in Greece.
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