Hammer and Rails, a Purdue Boilermakers community

We recap the tail end of the Purdue Boilermakers' men's basketball regular season, and hand out traditional Big Ten awards (POY, 1st/2nd/3rd teams, 6th Man, DPOY, All-Freshman team), along with a few alternative awards (Doucher of the Year, Crankiest Coach, All-Fun team, All-Ugly Team, Goober of the Year). We also give our thoughts on both the NCAA Tournament and the CBI, previewing Purdue's matchup with Western Illinois.

Corn Nation (Nebraska's SB Nation blog) must have wrote an article critical of the B1G non-conference schedule. Purdue's coach wrote him an e-mail in response which really does a good job explaining the difficulties for the teams in the northern conferences when it comes to the sport. Read the post, he did a great job in arguing his points! (p.s. they are playing for 3-0 on the weekend right now, Boiler Up!!!)