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00:00If Purdue and Houston, as I just set the table, as high as 8.5, but the FanDuel Sportsbook still listed at 7.5 of the minus 120 price right now on the live number.
00:08132.5 is the total in this game. Same arena, same volume, Houston's calling card defense, just like Tennessee.
00:15How about this, Mark? This same air, like, right? Two of the best defensive teams in the country are like, wait a second.
00:20It's going to be a little bit harder to shoot against us, and we already play great defense. Talk to me about Purdue-Houston here.
00:27Yeah, again, this matchup, I think, is really hard to handicap from the standpoint of, I think Purdue has a chance to actually win this game.
00:38But they have to play a perfect game, and you need Houston to play a less than perfect game when it comes down to it.
00:45I mean, you know, Purdue's offense is centered around making a bunch of three-pointers and getting up and down and, you know,
00:51just kind of trying to take advantage of the fact that they can shoot better than most teams in the country.
00:5617th in effective field goal percentage, 9th in three-point shooting.
01:00Doing that against this Houston defense is really, really tough because they're very good,
01:04and I don't know that they're going to win inside, right? Because that's where Houston really can dominate.
01:08They have the size and ability inside. When you talk about offensive rebounds and rebounding in general,
01:14it does feel a little bit like, hey, if Purdue can't, you know, stay within four or five early, that they won't late.
01:21I don't know, again, against this Houston team.
01:23I love the idea of somebody crawling back into it because you need something out of the ordinary to happen.
01:28Houston to go on a five- or six-minute scoring drought, you know, and it's because they play in such a half-court set.
01:35I don't really see that happening. But again, Houston makes a ton of threes themselves.
01:39They're number one in three-point shooting, so Purdue would need to play a perfect game.
01:44It may be Houston or pass for me in this one.