Purdue hasn’t been to a Final Four since 1980 and has been upset by lower-seeded teams several times in recent years, but it’s choosing optimism before a Sweet 16 game against Gonzaga.
Matt Painter guided Purdue through practice Thursday before its Sweet 16 game against Gonzaga on Friday night. DETROIT — Oh, gosh, here’s Purdue again, orienteering into the thick-forest portion of the brackets. You might cringe hoping it brought proper kerosene and stalwart GPS. You might marvel that it keeps trying.
“Well, your expectation is your best season,” the unbreakable Purdue coach, Matt Painter, said Thursday. “So this is my 19th season at Purdue, so if we don’t win the Big Ten or get to an Elite Eight, we had a bad year. It’s harsh, but it’s the way it is. So you just want to keep moving that bar so like — you know, some of the that get treated unfairly, I’d love to be them.
By now, of course, Purdue has exited both to Bennett and to Bennett’s son . It has suffered like few others in the who-would-have-thought-this-was-possible sweepstakes, a theme that has deluged it in the 2020s, forcing Painter to explore his own deep well of dignity.In 2021 in Indianapolis, in the first round, No. 4 seed Purdue lost, 78-69, in overtime to No. 13 seed North Texas, whereupon Painter began: “Well, congratulations to North Texas. I thought they played a great game.
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