Ncaa College Basketball: History Of Purdue Boilermakers

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The Purdue Boilermakers Men's Basketball team goes far back in history. The team has been in existence for more than one hundred years. The team first started play in 1896, where they would actually play against YMCA teams sometimes.

In the early years the Purdue team had a few memorable seasons. One of them occurred in 1902 and 1903. In this season the team was led by C.I. Freeman. Freeman was coaching the team for his first season and turned the program around to new levels. The team had never had an undefeated season in their history to that point, but Freeman changed all of that. The Boilermakers went 8-0 that season. That year brought popularity and recognition to the sport and they were able to make basketball more of a priority in the University from that time on.

That undefeated season really made all the difference for the Boilermakers. After the school made basketball one of its major sports the team was invited to play in the Big Ten Conference 3 years later.

The Big Ten brought opportunities for the team to compete for Conference Championships. Success did not come immediately for the Boilermakers, ...
... but they did find it in time. The first Conference Championship for regular season play happened in 1911. The team has gone on to become the Conference Regular Season Champions 22 times in their history. The 1911 championship was the first of back-to-back championships for the team.

In the 1920's and 1930's the team found a lot of success in their conference. In the 1920's the team won the Conference Championship four different times. They would be outdone in the 1930's though, as they went on to win the Big Ten Conference Championship 6 times. This was the best decade of success for the team in the history of their play. The crowning event of the decade was their National Championship in 1932. This championship happened before the beginning of NCAA Tournament play, but they were champions for the first time in school history. To this date the Boilermakers have not been able to achieve National Championship status again to repeat the success of 1932.

Things started to slow down for the Boilermakers after the 1930's. The team won the Conference championship in 1940, but they had a drought of nearly 30 years before finding themselves as champions again. That stretch was the most disappointing stretch of play in the history of the team. They did have other stretches without much success, but that stretch was the longest lasting by far.

The team ended the drought in a big way. In 1969 the team qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever. The team managed to make an impact right away. They shot through the tournament winning game after game until they found themselves in the final game of the tournament. The team took on John Wooden and the UCLA Bruins. The Bruins were too much and won the game, but that was the only time in Purdue history that they have managed to advance to the finals of the NCAA Tournament.

The team has since had ups and downs, but the Boilermakers have established a history of winning in the past two decades. The team is a perennial threat to make the NCAA Tournament and has had teams that were particularly strong recently. The team won its first Conference Tournament in 2009.

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Isiah Dunlap writes reviews on various sporting events including the various online sportsbook. In this piece of write up the author wrote about National Basketball Association games. The author takes the readers opinion on how to do NBA Betting online.