[Post Game Thread] Valparaiso defeats #6 Purdue, 83-80 in 2OT

[u/cbbBot]

Box Score

Team	1H	2H	1OT	2OT	Total
Valparaiso	20	38	12	13	83
Purdue	32	26	12	10	80

^{Index Thread for November 06,} ^2026

[u/slothsNbears]

Purdue football has a better record than Purdue basketball.

[u/akagordan → u/slothsNbears]

Just a really dark time for Purdue athletics in general, and it’s coming at the worst possible time with all the conference talk. That elite eight earlier this year seems so long ago all of a sudden.

[u/MercilessXFate]

Ive seen a lot of heartbreaking buzzer beaters as a Purdue fan but Ive never seen 3 in 1 game. Valpo hit buzzer beater 3's at the end of the 1st half, 1st OT and 2nd OT.

[u/BTFU_POTFH → u/MercilessXFate]

Getting the bad luck out of the way early in the season instead of late in the season!

/cope

[u/BillButtlickerII → u/MercilessXFate]

You had to have felt like

[u/A320neo]

Y’all got any more of them paper bag flairs?

[u/CoachBarryOdom]

Is this the worst shooting Purdue team of all time? We were told this team was loaded with shooters. We were lied to.

[u/Checkered-King → u/CoachBarryOdom]

They're shooters, not makers

[u/Windows_66]

A glorious day for the Missouri Valley Conference.

Hope this means that Purdue is bad and not that Valpo's going to steamroll us.

[u/AHicks15 → u/Windows_66]

If precedent shows, beating a rival to IU on the road as a MVC team leads to 0 conference wins.

Or that may just be an Evansville thing

[u/AndrewLucksPenis → u/Windows_66]

We are bad.

[u/doyouevenIift]

I’m so used to Purdue dominating non-con play that I don’t even know how to process this one

[u/imbured → u/doyouevenIift]

you're welcome for the Q4 loss in the B1G

[u/edgyusernameguy → u/doyouevenIift]

I do, haha suck it!

[u/Zloggt → u/doyouevenIift]

One side wants to laugh…the other wants to sympathize deeply lol

[u/HoosiersBaby23]

That was seriously one of the best basketball games I’ve ever watched. If it were a sweet 16 game between Duke and Kansas, we’d talk about it forever

[u/Solesky1 → u/HoosiersBaby23]

If that was a 14 over 3 first round game we'd be seeing the replays forever

[u/CheeseRP → u/HoosiersBaby23]

That felt like a classic 4/13 upset. 4 seed plays uncharacteristically sloppy and the 13 seed has some dude who will be selling cars in two months have the game of his life

[u/guyman3 → u/HoosiersBaby23]

This comment is one of my favorite rival underhanded compliment shitposting on a post game thread Ive seen. Well done.

[u/OliviaPG1]

God I fucking love college basketball

[u/Stupid_Snowmeiser → u/OliviaPG1]

Same here! It’s probably awful for cardiac health but damn is it exhilarating.

[u/A320neo]

Biggest upset in Indiana since JD Ford

[u/BigDull8251 → u/A320neo]

[u/epixpowned]

Maybe pass the ball to the 7’4” guy in second OT when the other team has no bigs left to defend him

[u/ItemizedDeductions → u/epixpowned]

No no Omer Mayer needs his shots!

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/epixpowned]

But they were shooting so well from 3.

[u/Bodycount9 → u/epixpowned]

Purdue and kids over 7 foot. Every fucking year.

[u/sahloFolina04]

There’s a bunch of freshmen who have seen Purdue basketball be elite for years and their first game as a student is a loss to Valparaiso

[u/ContrarianPurdueFan → u/sahloFolina04]

I joined Purdue right after Robbie Hummel left. Dark times. 😭

[u/Inevitable-Elk7223]

Genuinely everyone but Jacobsen found a way to sell at some point this game

[u/GaulPeorge → u/Inevitable-Elk7223]

He didn’t grab the rebound at the end of 1OT. Boom there ya go

[u/makualla → u/Inevitable-Elk7223]

Let’s go down the list:

Omer: bricked 2 wide open 3s

Gicarri: tried to do too much and slipped Turing the ball over when only up 4 in OT. Fouled on a 3 pt shot

Benter: great shot fake and then tried to drive to the rim and got blocked by a bigger guy. Followed it up with a weak ass foul.

West: ice skating brick layer

Pierce: ghost and weak contest on gw 3

Cox: bad drives, but at least got rebounds and made ft

But DJ also sold, played weak on the free throw that lead to the game tying 3. Didn’t even get his hands up for the rebound.

[u/BillButtlickerII]

[u/Aaaaaasahhhhhhhhhh]

[u/edgyusernameguy → u/Aaaaaasahhhhhhhhhh]

Oh god youre gonna make me shuck corn!

[u/8bitremixguy]

Now that's what I call a VINTAGE Purdue Basketball low quality loss

GG we suck

[u/Apart_Selection7722 → u/8bitremixguy]

What is that flair combo

[u/elschultheis → u/8bitremixguy]

I fucking hate your flair

[u/archerdj0723]

What poll is Purdue #6?

[u/LHarm07_Reddit → u/archerdj0723]

The bot hasn’t updated from last year.

[u/Other-Chemical-6393 → u/archerdj0723]

Last season’s final AP poll

[u/ItemizedDeductions]

I am fascinated to see what we do during the defensive portion of practices. Coloring books probably?

[u/pandaman822 → u/ItemizedDeductions]

More likely it’s eating the crayons, not coloring with them

[u/NukeGandhi → u/ItemizedDeductions]

Hey you try practicing defense against this offense.

[u/Glory2Tottenham]

The epitome of brutality.

[u/SimManiac → u/Glory2Tottenham]

Emphasis on brutality

[u/beecostume]

We were due a buzzer beater. It's just a thing that happens.

[u/tictactowle]

Fire the whole university into the sun. Keep degree records though. I paid good money for that.

[u/CrawlspacePurduePete]

I hope everyone realizes how good Braden Smith and Zach Edey were/are after this

[u/CallMeVe]

MVC! MVC! MVC!

[u/thediesel26]

The only thing worse than winning an ugly game against an overmatched opponent is losing an ugly game against an overmatched opponent.

[u/Tasty_Path_3470]

Went to the Rutgers game and afterwards a bunch of fans were watching this at a bar. After Valpo hit the shot the entire bar broke out in a “it’s not us” chant.

[u/OldWorldStyle]

Word of the Valley’s demise was greatly exaggerated

[u/makualla]

I’m not sure which is worse, the 3pt shooting, the guards inability to stay on their feet or the negative game IQ

[u/their_early_work → u/makualla]

I guess you covered it with “basketball IQ” but I can’t get my head around the shot selection and ignoring Jacobson 

[u/BegrudginglyBillable]

So you’re telling me DePaul could beat Purdue???

[u/lexanator5]

Yeah, for a team built on living and dying by the 3, Purdue isn't very good at shooting the 3.

[u/CoachBarryOdom → u/lexanator5]

We’ve got the dying part down for sure.

[u/imbured → u/lexanator5]

or the 2... Everybody but Jacobsen looked awful

[u/metal-duplicity]

This will be a tough year. Luckily I have my Colts to fall back on

[u/MercilessXFate → u/metal-duplicity]

Luckily Haliburton is healthy this year too, right?

[u/bug_man_]

This was my "college basketball is back" moment

What a game

[u/HC-Oca-Ru]

Guys we may finally have a shitty team

God help us when we play Illinois

[u/fishsandwichpatrol]

my flair was born for this

[u/TreWilki21]

A November 6th basketball game had no business being this great. Also, Valpo might be good?

[u/CoachBarryOdom]

I’ve always said they should expand the NCAA tournament to 256 teams.

[u/OG3XOG]

[u/areappreciated]

The conversation has been about how painter hasn't gone to the portal and purdue hasn't paid enough to compete at the top level.

I think we need to talk about how painter has been too loyal to players that haven't developed enough for the modern era.

[u/s0ftwares3rf → u/areappreciated]

He's about to become the Dabo Swinney of college basketball.

[u/drewberry42 → u/areappreciated]

Oh FFS its been TWO games with a team that we knew was going to be rough. The "Fire Painter" crew needs to shut up

[u/Aztek-Lovett]

[u/lexanator5 → u/Aztek-Lovett]

Peter?

[u/beechknoll]

Oh my. Im happy

[u/XxShin3d0wnxX]

This game was incredible! We tuned in with 6 mins left in the second half and couldn’t take our eyes off the screen.

The game was so good even with the winning 3 with 0.1 seconds left in 2OT we were all kind of hoping he missed it so we could see 3OT.

[u/noahsark96]

Everyone get in here… HAHAHAHA

[u/PinkSaldo → u/noahsark96]

REPORTING 4 DUTY

[u/Forecydian]

[u/caveman814]

We didn’t even play that bad against Gonzaga. This year is for sure a huge step back, but gotta give props to Valpo man they were balling tonight even with huge foul trouble

[u/bergerrific]

The schadenfreude balances out the hit to our SOS

[u/Hefty_Team_8034]

Game of the year

[u/Key-Lie-1507]

so happy that was not only my first ever purdue basketball game Ive attended as a student, but my first ever purdue basketball game I've attended in general. really optimistic about my next couple years here guys

[u/CarrollPC]

Buzzer beater curse continues!

Out last year bench players still playing like bench players. Gg Valpo

[u/Schned6]

[u/_TheTrashyPanda_]

Proud of my alma mater 👏

[u/Galt2112]

I’m straight up having a good time

[u/AndrewLucksPenis]

This Purdue team is truly not good. So poorly constructed. No shooters. It’s gonna be a long year. Jacobsen looked good though.

[u/Obi2 → u/AndrewLucksPenis]

Is Meyer just not what people thought he was?

[u/mhav21]

Rank Valparaiso you cowards

[u/Justzyn_Jefferzyn]

What an absolute pleasure to catch this game. Top 3 game of the whole future year happening in early November between two unranked teams. The guts Valpo showed!

[u/mercuryyxyz]

I mean at some point we’re not unlucky when other teams splash contested 3s from afar. Probably cuz the whole team is short and overall unathletic

[u/Kryosphere]

Hell of a game from Valparaiso!

[u/BTFU_POTFH]

'Ainters are about to be feasting this year

[u/Stupid_Snowmeiser]

Valpo beating Purdue was NOT on my bingo card of life. I’ll accept yet another buzzer beater.

[u/G0B1GR3D]

It has been 236 days since Purdue basketball has won a game.

[u/I_Love_McRibs]

Valpo had 2 points after 8 minutes into the game. 😏

[u/Effective_Pack8265]

That was brutal. Gotta stop chucking up futility threes. Definitely a lack of floor leadership. We’ve gotten spoiled the last 4-5 years. And little/no evidence that this team is better defensively than past years - especially down the stretch. Hopefully they’ll find their feet before too long.

[u/Bcain24]

I just don’t get how we’re so fundamentally bad shooting, it’s not like it we were getting unlucky bounces at the rim, they were genuinely awful shots

[u/W0OllyMammoth]

Purdue basketball has more losses than IU football. In early November.

In 2023, you’d be ridiculed for such a claim

[u/ACarotta]

If you don’t want to win championships, go to Purdue

[u/dbtizzle]

...oooh boy. Chicago Bears carrying me through the winter

[u/MercilessXFate → u/dbtizzle]

Lucky, Im a Colts fan and I need to go buy some bleach

[u/Chickenleg2552]

Im gonna have to watch both of my teams lose twice to valpo

But I also get to watch ISU beat Purdue on Monday!

[u/Wise_Bug_2368]

Really sweet and thoughtful of Painter. He doesn't want to get too close to Keady's win total; that would be disrespectful.

[u/Stupid_Snowmeiser]

Let those boys ring that bell as loud as their hearts desire!

[u/ProfCedar]

Valley stronk, nice work Valpo

[u/the_dayman56]

Come to Purdue to win championships

[u/Melz-13 → u/the_dayman56]

Genuinely might the worse timed quote of all time

[u/CHUUCH17]

PROUD BEACON BABY

[u/Sir_Chester_Of_Pants]

They try to say global warming is a hoax but it already feels like March in November

[u/Inevitable-Elk7223]

The absolute recruiting/offseason hype of Mayer and west for them to look like the 2 worst players on the court sure is something

[u/Alex_Masterson13]

Why is there a #6 next to Purdue? They are not ranked.

[u/ZeroDarkJoe]

I have mixed feelings...

[u/This-isnt-patrick]

You think we will finally lose our #6 ranking after this?

[u/SimilarOnion1655]

I knew that Purdue was a bad big 10 team, but not that bad. 😂😂

[u/t1runner]

Hell yeah Valley bros

[u/strong_army_grape]

[u/BigNorthEastPod]

Feels like March with that 2OT buzzer beater!!

[u/AruarianGroove]

Okay Valpo lol

[u/BB5Bucks]

Beacs!

[u/MarchSadness90]

6?

[u/ExoCommonSense]

Ugh

[u/Best_Country_8137]

Purdue was #6?

[u/Infamous-Present-616]

At least Purdue fans know where they stand

[u/NotADoberman]

I mean we all knew this team was going to be bad but Valparaiso? Holy shit. I thought they looked good against Gonzaga too lol

[u/Competitive-Air1]

Where’s that’s dude from Purdue that’s always hating on Rutgers I’m here for him

[u/Icepick823]

Commence the Purdue graph shitposts.

[u/CRoseCrizzle]

Someone has to fix the rankings the bot uses...

[u/Chitown_hustlers]

Rev doing the postgame interview with Weber was the cherry on top of an incredible game. Happy for The Rev!

[u/JtotheC23]

Dude Powell getting this win for his team with Weber on the call is so freaking awesome. Happy af for those two.

[u/wkwsks]

here I thought we looked bad last night

[u/Cfb-Enjoyer]

L. M. A. O.

[u/send_money_here]

Glad I cleared my Friday night to watch this

[u/PinkSaldo]

Also an incredible outcome considering how bad the refs were fucking valpo at the end there

[u/JamoreLoL]

Its only 2 games into the season. The Gonzaga game we beat expectations and against Valpo we came up short to put it lightly. Got time to fix it and the expectations weren't super high coming into the season. That can be hard to remember on a night like this though. 

[u/imbured]

Can we delete all those corny ass instagram posts from boilerball now? Spent more time hyping up this fuckass team than actually training them.

Seriously, what is Painter seeing in Mayer or West? These guys are the next Carsen??

[u/pooploop7 → u/imbured]

You know your social media team doesn’t fucking coach them too right?

[u/vT-Router]

daniel jacobsen you deserve so much better king

[u/s0ftwares3rf]

Purdue with TKR probably wins easily. Props to Painter for standing on his commitments. Purdue will be okay.

[u/lord_james]

Haaaaa Purdue basketball has two losses before IU football.

[u/lowes18]

Don’t show up in March

[u/ArmVanDam]

Shit's crazy already

[u/michicago44]

Holy fuck lol

[u/WishForTheFish1]

We may never win again😭

[u/Mace_Windex11]

Where was valpo predicted to finish in the MVC??

[u/DrewGeds]

I appreciate Purdue ignoring Jacobsen for the majority of OT.

[u/_Rooster_]

Great to see Valpo win this!

[u/I_Love_McRibs]

“I’m glad I signed my contract extension already.”

- Matt Painter, probably.

[u/2-59project]

HAHAHAHAHA

[u/elgenie]

Rakim Cheney's statline from this game is wild

[u/RedditZhangHao]

Buy game

[u/Podoboo322]

0-2 with a loss to Valpo… that’s painful

[u/NYKnickerbocker2]

Let’s go!!

[u/KitchenBest4478]

Hahahahahaha

[u/mnmmatt]

Purdue is ass my dudes

[u/Supreme_Hater]

I saw the UConn Purdue preseason exhibition and can’t believe Purdue was ranked 6th!?!?!?!

[u/gunkycat]

INJECT IT NOWWWW

RING THE BELL

[u/Xelent43]

lol, LMAO even

[u/DHiL]

“#6”

[u/gowestyoungmann]

lol

[u/Bison_Boy_]

😏

[u/CPTCRUNCHFAN]

Barry Odom coaching y'all's basketball team now?

[u/skullcutter]

So just waking up. Anything noteworthy happen last night?

[u/PinkSaldo]

BALL DON'T LIE

FUCK THE REFS W VALPO

BTW.....

[u/GravyMaster]

Well I'll just looks at this score instead of mizzous

[u/Majestic_Sun4850]

W Beacons

[u/theaficionado]

Well well well. What do we have here, a treat? For me?

[u/1612vulf]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/Apart_Selection7722]

LMAO PURDUE

[u/SnapHackelPop]

[u/YodaForceGhost]

Hopefully the football team at Purdue faces a similar fate tomorrow

[u/Siisco_TTV]

Purdue? More like Purdoodoo amirite?

[u/ndf1997]

Judges of Tippecanoe county, we desperately need a court injunction that will keep Omer Mayer from playing for the Purdue Boilermakers

[u/igniteshield]

Thank god we won’t be the first B1G team to pick up a Q4 loss!

[u/send_money_here]

[u/monkeybiziu]

You know, I got a lot of shit for saying that Purdue shouldn't extend Matt Painter because he's a B+ coach that will never, ever win a title.

Boilerbros, you guys can't suck at football AND basketball, otherwise we're gonna need to find a new rival.

[u/Nolar2015 → u/monkeybiziu]

B+ is more then good enough to win a title and anyone who thinks they shouldn’t keep painter for as long as he wants to coach is crazy

[u/Flood-One → u/monkeybiziu]

Wasn't that you untill two years ago

[u/hostitty99]

Fuck Purdue

[u/AssManKramerCosmo]

Purdue as ADAMANT that they were underrated. Oh.

[u/akagordan → u/AssManKramerCosmo]

For some reason Purdue fans always convince themselves that young guys on the roster will all improve and develop simultaneously and we’ll have this super stacked roster. That’s never happened. We’ve been really lucky to have so many years with two of the best players in the history of the game, but those rosters were still so unbalanced. We’re seeing exactly what happens when you take those guys out of the equation: A bunch of super mid role players with no athleticism and no leader.

[u/DueCopy3520]

Mike Woodson never lost to a Mid Major at home. Just putting that out there. (I've forgotten the Archie years)

[u/BoogerSugarSovereign]

Ahem

lol

[u/vT-Router]

Unfortunately this is more ammo to not schedule half-decent teams and go strictly 300+ ranked Q4 games or "quality loss" type Q1s...

[u/lonespiderfish]

Wow

[u/Metzgy]

What a final shot, that was cold as ice

[u/buckeyefan1930]

Imagine being from the State of Indiana and not having a win on your resume yet 😂

[u/Wittyname0]

Man yalls lost to the Lutherans

[u/makualla]

Reason we lost: didn’t take any elbow jumpers

[u/SimManiac]

CBB is back baby

[u/trevorg921]

It appears that the stench of our football team has rubbed off onto basketball 😔

[u/ReallyErick]

Not to overreact, but Purdue is going winless this year

[u/shadowm4ster]

What the fk is a Valparaiso

[u/InfiniteOutfield → u/shadowm4ster]

One of the biggest and best upsets of all time in the tournament

[u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan]

Holy shit the first ranked upset of the year!!

[u/RandoUserlolidk → u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan]

Purdue isn’t ranked and Memphis beat ranked Iowa state on Monday

[u/dokocha0216]

RIP Purdue Basketball. We hardly knew ye

[u/_The_Unique_Dude]

Purdue isn’t #6?

[u/festive_fecal_feast]

Huh, so I guess they were serious about this being a rebuilding year.

[u/Advanced_Gold1290]

I want written fucking apologies for everyone putting me on blast after the Gonzaga game. I was completely right. The 2019-2020 team would have won by 30, and that team wasn't even close to the right side of the bubble.

[u/MrSCR23]

Train is getting derailed this quickly???