Today's ESPN Bracketology...

[DJO's Pump Fake]

Purdue sucks.....don't they play in the Big Ten?

[Norm]

Why is Purdue not a good matchup for Marquette? Are they an extremely tall team with huge centers and power forwards? Do they drain 3's all day long? I watched them play a little and don't see anything that scares me too much.

[AlumKCof93]

Teams to fear in the Big 10 . . .

MSU and Purdue.  The rest of them, let's play.  These 2 are legit. 

[GOMU1104]

Why is Purdue not a good matchup for Marquette? Are they an extremely tall team with huge centers and power forwards? Do they drain 3's all day long? I watched them play a little and don't see anything that scares me too much.

JaJuan Johnson - Athletic big man who we can't match up with.
Robbie Hummel - Drains 3s

Pretty solid guard play from Etwaun More, Keaton Grant, and Lewis Jackson

Not a gimme at all...there are definately better matchups that one could hope for.

[Skatastrophy]

Teams to fear in the Big 10 . . .

MSU and Purdue.  The rest of them, let's play.  These 2 are legit. 

I'd rather play Purdue than most of the teams in the BE.  MSU, on the other hand, would not be a team I'd like to face.

[GOMU1104]

Edited...I'm an idiot.

[Badgerhater920]

JaJuan Johnson - Athletic big man who we can't match up with.
Robbie Hummel - Drains 3s

Pretty solid guard play from Etwaun More, Keaton Grant, and Lewis Jackson

Not a gimme at all...there are definately better matchups that one could hope for.

6'10'' JuJuan Johnson is really the only matchup that bothers me a little bit but we've beaten teams with better big men this year and  Lazar plays bigger than him at 6'6''.
Beyond that, our guards are better even without Dom, Wes would abuse Hummel, and Jerel would beat up Moore.

Yes, the big 10 is overrated, but that's not really why I wouldn't mind playing Purdue in the 2nd round - any team that scores 49 on Iowa doesn't exactly terrify me.

[Badgerhater920]

You are more worried about Penn State, Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin?

I think BE stands for Big East.

[Coleman]

No one is saying Purdue would be easy. But I would take them over the top 6 teams in the Big East any day.

[nola03]

Well, I just REASONED that out myself by finding that Purdue is actually not a good match up for us, and these jokers must be assuming they suck because they're in the Big Ten.

 

[The Man in Gold]

I'm more upset that Villanova with a loss this weekend at home to GU is a 3 seed.

[AlumKCof93]

I think UConn and Pitt are definitely among the top teams in the country and are significantly better then both MSU and Purdue.  I still don't know about Lville - they are capable of being great but they don't seem to be the smartest team around.  After that, there's Nova and us.  I think Purdue would fit right in with us and would finish anywhere from 4th to 7th in the BE.

[bamamarquettefan]

Michigan State and Purdue are both tall teams - top 50 by kenpom.com's calculations, and we have had more trouble with tall teams - even weak ones like DePaul.  Last year we drew the tallest team in the country in the 2nd round in Stanford, and played a great game but fell just short.  We just played the tallest team in the country this year, UConn.

What I think we want to avoid is a big point guard who can score like UConn's Price, because that's the only place where I really think Mo will be a liability, and we might just have to go with Butler in the starting 5.  I love Butler as a starter, but am concerned that if Wes or Jerel are bringing the ball up the court they won't be scoring as much.

[AlumKCof93]

From Acker's perspective, isn't anyone taller than 5"11" a big point guard?