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Purdue Battles Houston in Indiana: Neutral Site Dynamics
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3/28/2025
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Game number four tonight, the last game on the card, 10-09 Eastern to be played in Indianapolis.
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It's Purdue, it's Houston. Purdue is from Indiana. The game is in Indiana. Home court advantage
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towards the Purdue Boilermakers, even though it's a quote-unquote neutral site. Houston,
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no shame in their game. Heavy favorites in this one. Opened up at 7.5 at the FanBull Sportsbook,
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sits at 8.5 right now live. The total of this game, it is low. Why? Because Houston plays
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electric defense. 131.5 for the opening number, still sits at 131.5. Your initial thoughts on
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this game, we got those, Joe Ranieri. Now more of a handicap style. What are we looking forward
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to in this game from you? Well, listen, we're talking about advantage Purdue from the location
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standpoint. 60 miles from West Lafayette is where this game is going to be played. So
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it is absolutely advantage Purdue there. And I told you the numbers earlier,
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Donnie. Teams playing in their home state since 1991 in the tournament, 143-103-2 against the
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number. It has been very profitable to back those teams playing in their home state in this spot.
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However, Houston does have just about every statistical advantage, I think, in this game
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here. We know the biggest weakness for Purdue is they don't play any defense and they can't
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stop anybody in the paint. Okay. How in the world are you going to stop Houston inside here in any
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way, shape, or form? They don't rebound all that much. And although Trey Kauffman-Wren had
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a tremendous game last time out, you know, look at who they had to beat versus who Houston had
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to beat. I mean, that game against Gonzaga was, that was a big test for Houston. Elite offensive
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team, Gonzaga, you know what? They still handled their business. Only Gonzaga played a little bit
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more defense. Neither of these teams, and I think this is important for folks to remember,
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we associate the Houston Cougars at a snail's pace, 359th in pace in the country. But don't
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confuse it. The Boilermakers are not running up and down the court. They're not Gonzaga. They're
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298th in pace. They are going to make this a half-court game, and it's all going to come
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down to whether Brandon Smith here can make enough shots against this defense of Houston to keep it
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close. Love the under, agree with the movement to the under, but I'm going to go Houston early
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in this one, first half. They've been money all year early in games. I think they come out and
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punch Purdue quickly and have a significant lead by the time they go to the break.
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