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FROM HIS SEAT in the second row on the left side of Purdue's coach bus, Matt Painter sat alone on a quiet, 275-mile drive back to West Lafayette, Indiana.
The morning after the No. 1 seed's NCAA title dreams ended in a shocking, 63-58 first-round loss to 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, Painter's team was going home. They had just become the second No. 1 seed in NCAA tournament history to lose to a 16-seed.
Frustrated and stunned, Painter grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down everything that had gone wrong that night.