One Last Shot: What About Purdue in One Possession Games?

Yesterday I took a pretty deep dive into how Purdue has fared with this group of seniors in “Close” games. I defined a close game as any game that was within a possession after the final media timeout. That is a pretty wide definition, however. I found that one bad loss (Gardner Webb) found Purdue never really got all that close, as it only had one possession down three in the final minutes. Then you had Georgia State last year, where they were done scoring by the 4 minute mark and Purdue was already in the midst of a closing 20-0 run.

One thing that has seemed to go against Purdue is last second shots, however. If the game comes down to one last possession in regulation it feels like…