{"id":166666,"date":"2026-03-17T21:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:47:36","slug":"spero-dedes-previews-purdue-vs-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166666\/","title":{"rendered":"Spero Dedes Previews Purdue vs Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17737825635977.jpg\" alt=\"Purdue v Michigan\" class=\"wp-image-723823\"  \/>Source: Michael Reaves \/ Getty<\/p>\n<p>The Purdue Boilermakers are headed to St. Louis to take on Queens University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Boilermakers are hot off their win over Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament\u00a0Championship and will look to carry that momentum forward. After a season that had its fair share of\u00a0ups and downs,\u00a0the vibes around the team are much more positive than they were before the Big Ten Tournament began. Now, Purdue will have to\u00a0keep the energy they had against Michigan if it wants to make a deep run through the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the Tuesday edition of The Ride With JMV, John spoke to Spero\u00a0Dedes\u00a0who will be on the call of Purdue-Queens for\u00a0TruTV.\u00a0Spero and John dove into the matchup, and what could lie ahead for the Boilermakers should they\u00a0advance.\u00a0Listen to that conversation below and tune into The Ride\u00a0With\u00a0JMV\u00a0weekdays from 3-6pm on 93.5\/107.5 The Fan!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Michael Reaves \/ Getty The Purdue Boilermakers are headed to St. Louis to take on Queens University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-166666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}