SIU's schedule

[tornado]

That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life.

some of the followup responses to that guy's opinion are likewise entertaining...
here are a few.....again, recall that every year Purdue plays some absolute 300+ RPI cupcakes at HOME every season, so how can playing much better teams like SIU or Richmond at a neutral site can hurt their RPI worse than that??

"It is an absolute embarassment, an RPI killer, and it could cost us a #1 seed when the selection committee is comparing us to someone with a similar record."

"this tourney does suck competition-wise"

"Did the bottom fall out of the Chicaago Invite. Absolutely. Is it worse than all the other tournaments? Yup"

[TheAsianSensation]

some of the followup responses to that guy's opinion are likewise entertaining...
here are a few.....again, recall that every year Purdue plays some absolute 300+ RPI cupcakes at HOME every season, so how can playing much better teams like SIU or Richmond at a neutral site can hurt their RPI worse than that??

"It is an absolute embarassment, an RPI killer, and it could cost us a #1 seed when the selection committee is comparing us to someone with a similar record."

"this tourney does suck competition-wise"

"Did the bottom fall out of the Chicaago Invite. Absolutely. Is it worse than all the other tournaments? Yup"

The only thing I'm guessing is that they expected to be in a truly elite tournament because this is the year they have the lofty preseason ranking. They are steeeeeaming. Usually the very best teams end up in one of 5 or 6 great tournaments, the Chicago Invitational not being one of them.

Although saying this is an "RPI killer" is a bit laughable.

[AZ BU Fan]

The only thing I'm guessing is that they expected to be in a truly elite tournament because this is the year they have the lofty preseason ranking. They are steeeeeaming. Usually the very best teams end up in one of 5 or 6 great tournaments, the Chicago Invitational not being one of them.

Although saying this is an "RPI killer" is a bit laughable.

What would really be laughable, and a RPI killer, would be for SIU to beat Purdue, or, Purdue not winning the Chicago Invitational this year....

Hopefully BF.com followers can channel all of their mental powers into making either one of these outcomes happen to Purdue!