March 24, 2024 THE DRUM BEAT PURDUE BASKETBALL by Shawn Martin Excelhsports.com photos by: SMR BOILER BLITZKRIEG BELIES BEGINNING     Indianapolis Indiana – Midwest Region top seed Purdue, came out with some early game jitters, and found themselves in a [More]

Marquette downs Colorado 81 to 77  by: Steven Stremming, Excel H Sports/USBWA Marquette advances in the NCAA tournament with a solid performance against the Colorado Buffaloes in the first game an of the NCAA Second round at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in [More]

Sara Scalia leads #4 Indiana over #13 Fairfield in the NCAA Tournament First Round By Nick Jenkinson/Excel H Sports    The #4 Seed Indiana Hoosiers pulled away in the second half to hand the #13 seed Fairfield Stags their second [More]

Boilers Exercise their Demons by: Shawn Martin, Excel H Sports photos by: For three hundred seventy-one days, the Purdue Men’s Basketball team has lived with the bad taste of last year’s first round NCAA Tournament defeat at the hands of [More]

Wisconsin Edges Purdue in overtime 76 to 75 by: Steven Stremming, Excel H Sports/USBWA In the first semifinal game of the 2024 B1G Ten Men’s conference basketball championships, Wisconsin and Purdue went toe to toe for not only regulation time [More]

Wisconsin (22-12) 76 Purdue (29-4) 75 overtime Story can be found at: www.excelhsports.com Illinois (25-8) 98 Nebraska (23-10) 87 The Illini of Head Coach Brad Underwood must have told his team at the half, with Illinois trailing Nebraska 51 to [More]

Boilers win with Grit, Guts, Edey and Jones by: Steven Stremming, Excel H Sports/USBWA In the opening round of the 2024 B1G Ten Men’s Quarterfinals, Michigan State and Purdue went toe to toe for the entire contest. And what a [More]

Game set for the 2024 B1G Ten Men’s basketball tournament semi-finals include, Purdue 67 Michigan State 62 see game story at: www.excelhsports.com Wisconsin (21-12) 70 Northwestern (21-11) 61 A J Storr had a career high 30 points for the Badgers [More]

The quarterfinals of the 2024 B1G Ten Men’s basketball tournament presented by TIAA got underway today in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the opening session, the Michigan State Spartans had a come from behind win over home standing Minnesota 77 to 67. [More]

Opening Round of 2024 B1G Ten Men’s basketball tournament presented by TIAA. Maryland (7-13, 16-16) big first half puts away Rutgers (7-13, 15-17) 65 to 51. Four Terps were in double digits with Donta Scott leading the way with 16 [More]

This is my idea of NCAA Men’s bracketology. There are 32 automatic qualifying conferences for the tournament. As of today, this who would qualify from those conferences. Conference-Regular Season-Automatic Bid in BOLD Big East=Connecticut B1G Ten= Purdue Big 12= Houston [More]

Conference-Regular Season-Conference Automatic Bid in BOLD Big East=Connecticut=Connecticut B1G Ten= Ohio State=Iowa Big 12= Oklahoma=Texas PAC 12=Stanford=Southern California Atlantic Coast=Virginia Tech=Notre Dame Southeastern Conference=South Carolina=South Carolina Mountain West=University of Nevada Las Vegas West Coast Conference= Gonzaga=Portland Missouri Valley= Drake Western [More]