The Early road warrior is on Purdue. Game 573 at 7:00 eastern. Purdue is back on track after beating Penn St and ending a 3 game skid. Now they land in a soft spot as they play only their 4th game vs a losing team. Purdue is ranked 11th in the RPI and is 3-0 on the road vs teams ranked 150 or worse like Illinois. The Illini are ranked 175 and are 1-5 vs top 50 teams and 0-4 ats on Thursdays. They have failed to cover 6 of 7 off a loss and 6 of 8 at home. If you think Illinois will pull the upset then you would take them. However, we dont think they can stay in the game and the fact that they are 1-20 to the spread when they lose as a home dog puts us on Purdue.