Note: This was updated before Purdue's win over Minnesota on Jan. 2.
PURDUE'S TOURNAMENT RÉSUMÉ POST-NON-CONFERENCE
Non-conference Record: 7-4
December Big Ten Record: 1-1
Splits: 6-1 (home) | 1-2 (road) | 1-2 (neutral)
NET Ranking: 44
Other Rankings: 12 KenPom | 35 Sagarin
QUAD 1 - 1-30 (HOME); 1-50 (NEUTRAL); 1-75 (ROAD) — 1-3
Wins
45 VCU (neutral)
Losses
4 Butler (neutral)
26 Florida State (neutral)
37 Marquette (road)
QUAD 2 - 31-75 (HOME); 51-100 (NEUTRAL); 76-135 (ROAD) (1-0)
69 Virginia (home)
QUAD 3 - 76-160 (HOME); 101-200 (NEUTRAL); 136-240 (ROAD) — 1-2
Wins
180 Ohio (away)
Losses
78 Texas (home)
178 Nebraska (away)
QUAD 4 - 161+ (HOME); 201+ (NEUTRAL); 241+ (ROAD) — 5-0
Wins
177 Northwestern (home)
182 Green Bay (home)
223 Central Michigan (home)
260 Jacksonville State (home)
349 Chicago State (home)
BRACKETOLOGY
BOTTOM LINE
Purdue obviously has work to do, as does every other team in the country, and its NET ranking will improve as it plays Big Ten games of consequence. It's watered down now by the weak draw of December conference games, and losing one of those games obviously stings.
So does the fact that Purdue's signature win to this point — Virginia — stands only as a Quad 3 game at the moment. Purdue will be rooting for the Cavaliers to have a strong ACC season, but also for VCU to hold in Quad 1 and preferably for Texas to move up.
Purdue does bank on being rewarded for playing high-level competition in non-conference, but right now, that competition doesn't jump off the page from a résumé perspective.
With a long way to go, the prospect of Purdue being a Bubble team is very real. One Bracketologist even has the Boilermakers in the First Four/play-in game at the moment, and Bracket Matrix's compilations show the Boilermakers with an average projected seed of 9.44.
Lots of basketball to be played still, however.
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