TOP 10 PLAYS OF THE 2023-24 SEASON My totally subjective list of the top 10 plays of the 2023-24 Purdue Men’s Basketball season: 10. HEIDE’S JORDAN-ESQUE REVERSE LAYUP Cam Heide proved...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/30/24145107/top-10-plays-of-the-2023-24-season
So, two days from the close of the portal, and we are still waiting on our roster to settle. Anybody have an idea or guess as to what will happen? It seems that the window is closed for a transfe...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/29/24144656/purdue-bball-roster
The actual results from the Big Ten Tournament were pretty uneventful: the women’s team played to seed, while the men’s team played a bit below their seed. Looking at the future, both teams h...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/29/24144448/purdue-tennis-plus-2024-big-ten-tournament
We are sports fans. More succinctly, we are college sports fans. And since you're reading this post, you're very likely a college basketball fan. Its from that point of view that I want to writ...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/27/24142241/perspective
WOMEN’S RANKINGS: #1 Michigan (23-3, 11-0) (NO CHANGE) Last two weeks: @#25 Wisconsin (4-0), @Minnesota (6-1), #65 Iowa (4-0), Nebraska (4-0) Michigan took a pretty easy win in Madison for...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/23/24138881/big-ten-tennis-power-rankings-edition-5
Several of the online pundits are saying that Painter should not have let Gillis go regardless of it being the plan all along that Gillis was graduating and leaving. They are saying that Painte...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/23/24138143/many-hammer-painter-for-gillis-to-duke
On the one hand, you could say that both of the tennis teams performed mostly as expected. Still, there are questions of "What if…" with both of them, as injuries dented potential performance o...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/23/24137958/purdue-tennis-plus-4-23-24
I’m happy for him, but this is gonna be hard to root for. I wish him the best season he can have. It’s not surprising based on some projections coming in the last few days though. I hope it...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/22/24137395/mason-gillis-to-duke
This is intriguing to me because Luke and Fletcher were friends in high school, both playing for my hometown high school - Homestead in Fort Wayne. With Mason Gillis gone, there might be space to...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/22/24137157/luke-goode-is-in-the-portal
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/why-new-virginia-nil-law-is-harbinger-of-things-to-come-for-ncaa/ar-AA1nrH4k?ocid=socialshare&cvid=773f640c554e4723bb1c88324f92b574&ei=11 Tell me that the...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/22/24137114/found-this-interesting-latest-nil-news
This kid is going to be so good. I love how he can pick up a driving guard and stay in front of him and totally deny the shot. VERY much like Matt Haarms. But he seems to have much better hands...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/20/24135736/more-video-of-daniel-jacobsen
I think most will agree that IU has generally been a dumpster fire since 2016 after Crean left. Yes, they made the tournament in there twice. Once they squeaked in as the last 4 after a late seas...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/17/24133210/is-the-dumpster-fire-out
Saw the news yesterday that Brandon Newman entered the portal after one year at WKU. Not a huge surprise given that Lutz left to go to OK St. Don't know if he is expected to follow Lutz there or ...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/17/24133031/brandon-newman-is-on-the-move-again
Great interview between PJ and RD. How intelligent and eloquent he is for having just turned 28. PJ and RD are a credit to Painter. Painter still has 15 good years in front of him, but will ha...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/17/24132844/pj-amp-the-painter-coaching-tree
In my last column, I talked a lot about missed opportunities. Over the past couple of weeks, both the baseball team and the softball team cashed in their opportunities at a much higher rate, and ...
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2024/4/16/24132150/purdue-dugout-doings-4-16-24