It was the first loss of the season for Purdue (4-1), but those four victories came at home, against lesser competition.

It's like the players here; I'm playing with lesser competition, but I can't take them for granted because they'll take it to me.

They cannot keep their intensity, especially when they play lesser competition.

First of all the entire year this team played down to the lesser competition.

Alabama has won big over lesser competition, while Arkansas lost to Texas, 22-20, in its second game.

In fact, she did not participate this year for her Kingwood High School team, which was considered lesser competition.

Ballesteros disagrees that playing against lesser competition has seriously hampered his career.

"You could say he ran against lesser competition," Puhich said.

And there are questions about whether his record kickoff return statistics in college were simply padded against lesser competition.

Alleyne, who had been dominant against lesser competition, finished with 9 points.