Purdue: Re-Earning Its Place in the Big Ten

About three and a half years ago it was a dark time for Purdue athletics. Our beloved school has never run roughshod over the conference across all sports, but back then it was an especially bad time. Men’s basketball was coming off of a last place finish in the conference. Football was two years away from firing Darrell Hazell. That meant we were still somewhat high on him before the dismal and uninspiring 2015 season would be rock bottom. Baseball was in the middle of a four-year run at the bottom of the league that would hit a nadir with the 10-win 2016 season. Other sports weren’t doing great, as the school went from 2013 (women’s golf) until 2017 (men’s basketball) without a single conference championship in any team sport.

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