Let’s start off by acknowledging that college basketball, by its nature, is chaotic. Purdue ran into a determined team on the road with a solid game plan and lost. That’s happens on occasion. This game feels different though. It’s not that Purdue lost, like I said, sometimes that happens on the road. It’s how they lost that concerns me. I’ve seen this before in March.
Northwestern came in with a simple game plan. Foul Edey when he’s trying to get position and double Edey immediately when he touches the ball. I know, I know, the refs helped this game plan by refusing to call fouls (is the “cylinder foul” no longer a thing?