Rutgers Beats #1 Purdue With Buzzer Beater

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Parity is an ever-increasing reality ……. the team with sufficient depth that can pressure full court for 40 minutes will be the most dangerous tournament team. The transfer portal as increased quality depth on a lot of teams. Rutgers played 12 kids last night, lots of energy.
 
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In a large portion of these upsets, go to the box score and just look @ the 3 pt line. It's the equalizer. Not always (FLA TX S was a crazy box) but it's just a strong indicator of why games are close. PU shot for ****. RU was crazy efficient.

PU - 7-26
RU - 7-14

Other things are going on, but that 3 pt shot has been a big part of the parity movement. The OAD, the portal, etc also a factor.
 
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Parity is an ever-increasing reality ……. the team with sufficient depth that can pressure full court for 40 minutes will be the most dangerous tournament team. The transfer portal as increased quality depth on a lot of teams. Rutgers played 12 kids last night, lots of energy.
Very true my friend. We will continue to see the parity that you refer to as the season goes on.

GO CARDS!!!
 

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In a large portion of these upsets, go to the box score and just look @ the 3 pt line. It's the equalizer. Not always (FLA TX S was a crazy box) but it's just a strong indicator of why games are close. PU shot for ****. RU was crazy efficient.

PU - 7-26
RU - 7-14

Other things are going on, but that 3 pt shot has been a big part of the parity movement. The OAD, the portal, etc also a factor.
Mich St. had shot the 3 pt ball pretty much bad all year prior to our game. As par for U of L they were on fire.
 
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Mich St is a tough place to play. the fans are so sneaky yelling the shot clock early when we had the ball. i love a diabolical fan base.

i saw a funny clip of Larry Bird shooting freethrows. the opposing fans would try to distract him with swimsuit posters of pretty women. lol