You have to give NC State credit. The Wolfpack is without its best big man, Manny Bates, for the season and has a young team. And yet they took the #1 team in the country to the wire before losing in overtime in the Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational.
Purdue actually never led in regulation which is amazing but at halftime Ebenezer Dowuona had two fouls and in our mind, that was it.
No knock on the young big but Purdue has two really good bigs and we didn’t see how Dowuona could guard them without serious foul trouble.