A few paragraphs about Purdue
by Ken Pomeroy on Monday, October 18, 2010
I have a lot of respect for anyone that compiles a pre-season ranking. For that reason, I rarely make judgments (at least publicly) on the many lists that start popping up around now. It is pretty easy to defend a wide variety of opinions on any one team. At this time last season, if you had said Syracuse was going to get a one-seed and North Carolina would miss the tournament, I would have politely disagreed and ended up looking foolish.
Andy Katz probably does the most famous off-season top 25. By the time he revealed the latest iteration last week, I suspect it was the result of many criticisms, constructive and otherwise, of his first draft in April. As such, it’s probably a good predictor of the pre-season media and coaches polls that will be unveiled shortly. Katz had Purdue ranked second until Robbie Hummel’s tragic ACL…