***OFFICIAL PURDUE AT MINNESOTA IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

[Stan]

January Big Ten basketball!!!! A ranked squad coming off a Natty title game appearance coming to The Barn!! This is what we crave as Gopher basketball fans. It's been 4 years since our last win over a ranked opponent. Ben Johnson doesn't like conference games during non-conference schedule, well no excuse for tonight. Barn should have some buzz, we've won 2 straight games, the "getting to know you" part of the season he talked about should be over. The "embrace the suck" part of his tenure should be over. Teams worse than MN will beat teams better than Purdue. We should have a game like that more often than once every 4 years.

Johnson needs this W badly. Our fans deserve this W.

GET 'ER DONE JOHNSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HitMeAgainIAmStillMoving]

Today we start the big push.

 

[golfing18now]

Couldn't crack page three on the Morgan State game day thread. Can we crack page three against Purdue?

 

[Gophs24]

Couldn't crack page three on the Morgan State game day thread. Can we crack page three against Purdue?

heres to me doing my part to help get us there

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Couldn't crack page three on the Morgan State game day thread. Can we crack page three against Purdue?

Keep posting

 

[matt]

Why is the line only Purdue by 5.5? Is that easy money or am I missing something?

 

[RockChalk]

Today we start the big push.

Yup, right to the bottom!!!!

 

[Gopher Coffee]

Lets Gopher it!

 

[mngolf]

Today we start the big push.

Of CBJ out the door.

 

[formerlybis]

The conference home opener against MSU was a 5-point spread, too.

Purdue is a very good 3P shooting team, but takes only an average amount of them. They are good at drawing fouls and not committing them. Right around average rebounders and slightly below average in both committing and causing turnovers. Not a team with a high pace, but everyone is faster than MN.

Smith and Loyer shoot way too many midranges, but the difference between them and someone like Patterson is that they are deadly beyond the arc - 43% and 47%, respectively. Try to run them off the line. Also, Kaufman-Renn is shooting under 60% from the FT line.

 

[Stan]

Why is the line only Purdue by 5.5? Is that easy money or am I missing something?

Definitely easy money. No way we keep it that close.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

TV note - the game is on FS1.

as we play "where are the Gophers" again.

in fact, if my notes are accurate.....here is the upcoming TV slate
Purdue - FS1
Ohio State - FS1
Bucky - the 'Cock
Maryland - BTN
Michigan - FS1

 

[howeda7]

The conference home opener against MSU was a 5-point spread, too.

Did we cover?

 

[Unregistered User]

Couldn't crack page three on the Morgan State game day thread. Can we crack page three against Purdue?

The haters and whiners will show up and push it to well over 3 pages.

 

[FinnGopher]

The haters and whiners will show up and push it to well over 3 pages.

We all know you carried the Morgan State thread.

 

[formerlybis]

Did we cover?

Just pointing out the deja-vu nature of the conversation... If this was at Mackey, it'd be +10

 

[FinnGopher]

The question for over/under is whether there will be more posts on this thread than people attending the game at Williams.

 

[Gopherbbdude]

Go Gophers!!


Hopefully they have been playing possum .... not banking on it.

 

[MUgopher32]

Why is the line only Purdue by 5.5? Is that easy money or am I missing something?

I'm a little surprised its 5.5 but this Purdue team is very very flawed. So on the road they should not be some massive favorite

I would have expected more like 7-7.5. But nothing beyond that really

 

[HitMeAgainIAmStillMoving]

TV note - the game is on FS1.

Purdue - FS1
Ohio State - FS1
Bucky - the 'Cock
Maryland - BTN
Michigan - FS1

Are you always this shameless or are you just whipping it out to show us?

 

[mplarson7]

I'd like to thank the B1G for scheduling the Gophers and IU to play overlapping games today.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Did we win?

 

[WayOfTheGopher]

Purdue 85
Gophers 72

 

[Spottedmuskie]

lets lock up Cam Heide at least

 

[Spaulding!No!]

lets lock up Cam Heide at least

He’ll never work in this town again! Well, he might be a financial analyst in on of the suburbs and drive his Highlander with a Purdue P sticker on the back window.

 

[USAF]

Did we cover?

I covered...

My eyes

 

[Spottedmuskie]

He’ll never work in this town again! Well, he might be a financial analyst in on of the suburbs and drive his Highlander with a Purdue P sticker on the back window.

There is a pretty good chance at that.... thinking Shorewood or Maple Grove

 

[GopherBlood777]

My wife is a Minnesota and Purdue alum so win win game in our house house tonight!

 

[stocker08]

Why is the line only Purdue by 5.5? Is that easy money or am I missing something?

Surprising to me. Seems low.....but Vegas typically kills squares on odd lines like these.

 

[stocker08]

Four point lead! Stop the count!