In the wake of Purdue collecting its league-leading 25th Big Ten Championship, as well as Zach Edey collecting Big Ten and National Player of the Year honors, the annual migration of the social media boo-birds is in peak season.
Among many other complaints (don’t even get me started on the “He’s just tall” crowd), one supposedly glaring criticism of Purdue’s runaway big ten title, as well as Zach Edey’s statistical domination, is the claim that Purdue was gifted an irredeemably easy path to success by the Big Ten’s schedule gods. After all, Purdue played the bottom six teams in the big ten a whopping TEN times, while Indiana, for example, only had the luxury of playing against them 7 times.