NCAA Tournament March Madness

#9 Purdue

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Projected seed: 3

Purdue’s résumé reads like a classic committee-friendly profile: impressive neutral-site blowouts of Texas Tech and Auburn and a résumé-making road win at Alabama plus road success at USC and a strong home victory over Iowa show the team can win in difficult settings. Those marquee moments are balanced by a damaging loss at Iowa State and setbacks to Illinois at home and Indiana on the road, results that keep the committee cautious about moving them higher. With forthcoming opportunities at Maryland and against Oregon that should tighten the resume and a consequential stretch that includes trips to Nebraska and Iowa along with home dates against Michigan, Indiana and Michigan State, Purdue still controls its fate and can erase blemishes and solidify its standing with how it handles the remainder of the schedule.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Evansville283W82-51
11/7Oakland121W87-77
11/13@Alabama17W87-80
11/16Akron53W97-79
11/20(N)Memphis105W80-71
11/21(N)Texas Tech18W86-56
11/28E Illinois309W109-62
12/2@Rutgers155W81-65
12/6Iowa St5L81-58
12/10Minnesota82W85-57
12/13Marquette110W79-59
12/20(N)Auburn26W88-60
12/29Kent139W101-60
1/3@Wisconsin41W89-73
1/7Washington48W81-73
1/10Penn St125W93-85
1/14Iowa23W79-72
1/17@USC47W69-64
1/20@UCLA39L69-67
1/24Illinois4L88-82
1/27@Indiana31L72-67
2/1@Maryland12291%
2/7Oregon9895%
2/10@Nebraska1141%
2/14@Iowa2353%
2/17Michigan246%
2/20Indiana3180%
2/26Michigan St758%
3/1@Ohio St4065%
3/4@Northwestern6277%
3/7Wisconsin4183%