Tomorrow we get actual, factual Purdue basketball! It is the first time we have taken the court since the bitter senior day loss to Rutgers, where a missed free throw with a second left in regulation cost the Boilers the game. Purdue never got a chance to redeem itself in the Big Ten Tournament. It never got one last shot to make the NCAAs. It never got an NIT run to get a few more games in Mackey Arena and maybe even get a consolation tournament title.
Four more than eight months now we have waited, and now we get to see what should be an interesting team for the first time.