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NCAA Tournament 2022 East Region - #3 Purdue vs. #6 Texas and the Coaches That Can’t Stop Playing Each Other

The 2018 Purdue season finished at TD Arena in Boston in the Sweet Sixteen with the #2 seed Boilermakers falling to Coach Chris Beard’s #3 seed Texas Tech Red Raisers. It probably finished earlier than that though, in Detroit, out with a bang that echoed all the way up to the rafters of the Little Caesar's Arena. I was there, all the way up there, and I can still hear that heavy thud.

But back to the coaches that can’t stop playing each other.

It was the second time Coach Matt Painter’s Boilermakers took on a Beard coached squad as the higher ranked team.