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DETROIT -- As they jumped around the court, hugged one another and screamed toward their fans following a 72-66 win over Tennessee in the Elite Eight on Sunday, the Purdue Boilermakers enjoyed the moment, something they couldn't do a year ago.
As they made the 239-mile trek from Nationwide Arena to their campus in West Lafayette last March, Purdue ran into a snowstorm.
The previous 24 hours had gone so poorly that it almost seemed appropriate. That silent -- and snowy -- three-and-a-half bus ride followed the wrong kind of history for the Boilermakers, who'd been laughed out of the 2023 NCAA tournament with a loss to 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson.