redwingillini11
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Not looking forward to this at all. But I hope UConn obliterates purdont.
83 team. 84 didn't even make the tournament.This NC State run is very similar to the Valvano '84 team.
We def need a chromosomal avenger like Edey or Clingan. Those guys both wrecked our game plans.UConn and Purdue stood above everyone else all season. Give me a 7' + behemoth to park under the basket please.
Only if I watch it during breakfast.Hurley/Oats connection will be a feature storyline heading into semifinal game...don't like Bama but will pull for them as underdog on Saturday.
Article from a few years back on their connection:
Colleagues, friends and competitors; Oats and Hurley ready for Friday showdown
Coach Oats and Coach Hurley will go up against each other, years after coaching at UB togetherwww.wkbw.com
If nc st makes it to championship game means Purdue would lose to another double digit seed!!! That would be 4 years in a rowI don’t care at this point who wins. I’m just so f’ing thankful that Duke got beat. I guess I’d have to pick UConn, but it’d be cool to see NC State at least make it to the Championship game.
That would be so funny to have them lose to a double-digit seed again... they get to the Final Four and they still can't shake itIf nc st makes it to championship game means Purdue would lose to another double digit seed!!! That would be 4 years in a row
Feels like it's time for Purdue to join us in the club of B1G teams to have lost the title game since MSU last won it in 2000.If nc st makes it to championship game means Purdue would lose to another double digit seed!!! That would be 4 years in a row
I stand corrected. Thank you.83 team. 84 didn't even make the tournament.
I'm good with that.That would be so funny to have them lose to a double-digit seed again... they get to the Final Four and they still can't shake it
Edey is going to eat Burns alive.
If we’ve been in the Championship game 1/3 of the years since 2000, I feel that’s reason to celebrate the B1G.Feels like it's time for Purdue to join us in the club of B1G teams to have lost the title game since MSU last won it in 2000.
They'd be the seventh team, eight tries (Michigan twice)
It would be all of the original Big Ten except Iowa, Minny, and Northwestern.
I 100% agree with this entire post.I don’t care at this point who wins. I’m just so f’ing thankful that Duke got beat. I guess I’d have to pick UConn, but it’d be cool to see NC State at least make it to the Championship game.
Duke isn't the same Duke during the Coach K days. This Duke team was missing something. They got lucky that Shead got hurt b/c there's no way they were beating Houston with a healthy SheadI think Duke thought winning this game was their birthright and came uncharacteristically unglued when it wasn’t being handed to them.
I disagree. The Alabama-UNC and Alabama-Clemson games were very fun, close, and high scoring affairsNC State game was the most fun of the entire weekend
Nothing wrong with being wrong. Nobody thought they'd get to this point. I thought Texas Tech would eliminate them in the Round of 32 and they certainly shocked Marquette to get to the Elite 8. I wasn't surprised with them beating Duke thoughI’ll admit I was dead wrong about NC State being able to continue their run. I’ll own it.
I want a Purdue/UConn championship game. And I want a 30 point Purdue win.