{"id":609004,"date":"2026-02-18T01:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:59:26","slug":"no-1-michigan-steamrolls-no-7-purdue-to-improve-to-25-1-strengthen-case-for-no-1-ncaa-tournament-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609004\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Michigan steamrolls No. 7 Purdue to improve to 25-1, strengthen case for No. 1 NCAA tournament seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&#8217;s No. 1 team faced one of its toughest tests of the season in a road game against No. 7 Purdue on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It passed with no issue. Michigan opened up a 16-point halftime lead and went on to a 91-80 win over a Purdue team that entered Tuesday&#8217;s game with two wins over top-10 opponents and riding a four-game win streak.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But the Boilermakers were no match for a Michigan team that continues to look like the best in the nation. The win will bolster Michigan&#8217;s case for the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, a path that was cleared last week when previously undefeated Arizona lost two straight games.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nation&#8217;s No. 1 team faced one of its toughest tests of the season in a road game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,3744,217,8761,1739,231,772,1544,2467,2458,80972],"class_list":["post-609004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-boilermakers","tag-college-basketball","tag-elliot-cadeau","tag-michigan","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-purdue","tag-trey-kaufman-renn","tag-west-lafayette"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116089164812314988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}