Hammer and Rails · Dec 22, 2017
Pick the Top Purdue Stories of 2017
Sure, we still have a bowl game (what’s a bowl game, again?) and another men’s basketball game, but we have reached the end of the year and it has been one of the more successful years in a while for Purdue sports. The school brought home two Big Ten championships in a team sport after having none for four years running. Steele Johnson continued to dominate NCAA diving at a national level. Caleb Swanigan was one of the best players in all of college basketball. Purdue football was no longer an embarrassment. Mark Wasikowski got Purdue baseball back into the Big Ten Tournament with a dynamic turnaround.