All in 2015-2016
The Boilers beat their second top ten opponent in Mackey this month. And there was joy again in Mudville.
Boilerdowd opines on Purdue's odd current situation -- a healthy overall record, a ranked team, some good wins....yet in the bottom half of the conference in terms of conference seeding.
Disaster was averted this evening as The Forces of Good continued the trend of not dropping two straight games.
Bridget Perry scored a career-high 27 points and the Boilers used an 11-0 run to defeat Penn State in double overtime, 88-78, despite losing Bree Horrocks to injury late in the first quarter. Purdue moves a game ahead of Nebraska in conference play and is 1.5 back of co-leaders Maryland and Ohio State.
Purdue's women's team has two significant weaknesses: they do not have a center who is a scoring threat, and they do not have a consistent three-point shooter. Tonight, Nebraska took advantage of both weaknesses, running out to an early lead and never looking back as they held off the Boilers, 62-61, handing Purdue just their second home loss in eleven games.
When last we left Sharon Versyp's squad, they hadn't lost since December 3 and were preparing for conference play ... fast-forward to tonight and not much has changed. The Boilers still haven't lost since December 3, and thanks partly to some interesting bounces, partly to an unbalanced schedule, and partly to clutch play, they're now alone in first place at 5-0, thanks to Northwestern's upset of Ohio State in Evanston tonight.
During the Christmas/New Year's week, the BSCR held pretty steady as human polls didn't move our Boiler and computers didn't move them much either.
For years we've felt it to be our duty here to point out sports media inconsistencies, specifically when it involved our Boilers. But as a good pal of mine reminded me a few years ago- "Why would anyone respect Purdue in the media?" It's a fair question.
The refs were atrocious. Iowa players are still holding AJ. Mike Gesell falls down when his cat bumps him. The refs stole a timeout. Adam Woodbury moves on all his screens. When Morgan Burke stepped on the floor at halftime, you could see the gloom spreading from his footprints like the Grinch stealing joy from Whoville. Someone stole Painter's car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. OK, now that that's out of the way, let's talk about what really cost Purdue this game.
