Stallings, Weber meet as friends and foes

But the two coaches are close, really close. They speak as often as Weber talks to Matt Painter and Chris Lowery, and that's often. The Weber-Stallings relationship goes back to Stallings' three seasons as a player at Purdue when Weber was an assistant. Then they coached together at Purdue, coached against each other in the MVC, their families vacation together, so on and so on.

"I don't think I have a better friend in coaching than Bruce," Stallings said today.

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