It is not panic time, at least not yet.
Despite all the proclamations of the sky falling, Purdue is a desperation heave from being No. 1 right now coming off of a home loss where it played arguably its worst game of the season and one of the best players in the country went crazy. As I said earlier this week: in all three of coach Painter’s Big Ten title winning seasons Purdue lost two of its first five league games, In 2010 it even lost THREE.
That is not to say things are rosy though. You have to start winning at some point, and Purdue has thinned its margin for error at the moment.