I suspected before the game that IU would win. It will be Sampson's last home game as IU coach.. There are many people very suspicious as to why the IU athletic director was given 7 days to investigate sampson. All of the facts have been there since October when they fired Sampson's assistant coach as a scapegoat. All of the telephone calls in question were made before the season started. the only new thing is that Sampson lied about everything and tried to cover it up from the NCAA investigator. BAd move on your part Sampson. there's nothing more that is going to turn up in the 7 day period other than to see if Bobby Knight will say yes to coach the team for the rest of the season. Maybe IU could get Isaih to quit his day job and coach the team. that would make us all happy.
the real reason many suspect that IU's athletic director was given 7 days to conclude his investigation was that IU played both purdue and MSU in those 7 days and that IU didn't want their assistant coach to coach those two games.
As for the game, IU wanted this win and got it. IU is a very tough place to win at - especially in the IU / Purdue basketball rivalry. The IU / Purdue basketball rivalry is up there with OSU/Mich football. IU is a VERY tough team at home as are all Big ten teams..
The big Ten will be a 4 horse race down to the very last game. I'm kind of upset with all of the national announcers saying the Big ten is down this year just because Purdue is fighting for the big ten championship. All 4 of the top big ten teams have had convincing wins over ranked nonconference teams.
I'm not sure why you guys are making fun of Purdue fans for their love of hummel. Your love affair / lust for harris is twice as bad. I'm not sure how many posts I've gagged at reading from badger fans who want harris to play point guard for the Bucks. it's as if he's to die for. I think it's kind of refreshing to see Purdue fans really liking a player. I haven't seen that type of love for a Purdue player in a long time. Big Dog didn't get a lot of love. Fans loved brian Cardinal. Purdue fans loved Jerry Sichting so much that Kyle Macy left for kentucky and became an all American. Caron Butler felt no love, and voided his verbal and signed with UCONN after purdue helped place him at a maine prep school. if purdue fans love hummel, so be it. rather than having a bobble head to put on their mantle, they have a hummel.
http://www.mihummel.com/collection.asp