Okay, I'm going to say it. Okay. Okay. St. John's fans...I was rooting for St. John's [in the tournament]. Do I want to play them? Probably not, but I didn't want to play Duke either, so we were rooting for St. John's, and then when we went to the [Elite Eight] game, all those St. John's fans were rooting against us, and that broke my heart.
Oscar Cluff scored 21 points, Trey Kaufman-Renn had 20 and No. 18 Purdue topped No. 3 Michigan 80-72 on Sunday for the Big Ten tournament championship. Braden Smith had 14 points, 11 assists and three steals as Purdue (27-8) added to an impressive turnaround after closing the regular season with four losses in six games.
Baylor averages 82.6 points per game while giving up 77.2 per contest, resulting in a +173 scoring differential overall. The Bears outscore opponents by 5.4 points per game.
Michigan's +607 scoring differential (outscoring opponents by 18.4 points per game) is a result of scoring 87.3 points per game (10th in college basketball) while giving up 68.9 per contest (56th in college basketball). The Wolverines score 17.2 more points than the Boilermakers give up (70.1).
For ages, certainly as long as we have been in the College Football Playoff age, people have politely asked and desperately pleaded, when were some new bloods finally going to replace the blue bloods on college football's biggest postseason stage? Well, folks, the age of new is officially the age of now. The promise of the four-team CFP versus the two-team Bowl Championship Series title game was to create more room
Purdue outscores opponents by 13.0 points per game (scoring 82.5 per game to rank 55th in college basketball while allowing 69.5 per contest to rank 72nd in college basketball) and has a +340 scoring differential overall. The 82.5 points the Boilermakers average are 11.2 more than the Hoosiers give up. Purdue hits 9.2 three-pointers per game (73rd in college basketball) at a 37.5% rate (26th in college basketball), compared to the 8.8 its opponents make while shooting 33.0% from deep.