Coaches tend to build up their opponents, but that wasn't what Steve Pikiell was doing the other day.
No, he was just giving the facts about the No. 3-ranked Purdue squad his Scarlet Knights will entertain at a sold-out Rutgers Athletics Center in Piscataway.
"Offensively and defensively, they are major problems. This is as good a team there is in the country," Pikiell said earlier this week. "They're talking about Final Fours out there, and those things. This team has a lot of pieces. ... You'd be hard-pressed to find teams to have all the weapons they have in the country.