If I really wanted to, I could write the same exact story that I cooked up the last time Northwestern lost to the Purdue Boilermakers. If I did, I’d say something like “Purdue is an amazing team, you should expect NU to lose this game, the bigger problem is that they lost the more winnable games earlier this season, do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars,” and go to sleep at a reasonable hour so I don’t fall asleep during my Econ classes.
But no, there’s a bigger story to be told. Purdue has the best adjusted offensive efficiency in the country per KenPom, yet Matt Painter’s team was held to 70 points on a middling 56.