The Purdue Boilermakers are 16.5 point favorites. Despite the bevy of low seeds struggling on day 1, the heavily favorited Boilers line keeps going up. It was 15.5 when the tournament started.
As I wrote Wednesday, every Purdue NCAA game seems to carry just a little more weight these days, but it’s possible that all that nervous hesitation has turned into unbridled optimism for Boiler fans despite themselves and all they know of March with the, you cannot say it enough, incredible upset of the #2 seed Kentucky by St. Peter’s giving any saint in history a run for their miracle money.