Five Guys and Whys: Why Purdue Lost to Villanova

Welcome to the not yet, but hopefully soon, sponsored post Five Guys and Whys. Often times, games are a collection of subtle plays, strange tips, and unlucky breaks. It’s hard to take any game of 40 minutes and say just one thing cost or won you a game, but when a game comes down to the wire and 3 points separates the winner from the loser, it’s often times just one thing that could make a difference. This is our attempt to find that one thing.

T-Mill: To me, it was turnovers. It is not so much how many Purdue had, but when they occurred. Three times Purdue had the ball down 64-63. They turned the ball over twice and missed the front end of a 1-and-1, so that is like a turnover. That second…