Purdue finished 7-5 down the stretch once teams started pressuring their guards.With all due respect to their guards, the won the conference because they had a physical menace to the basketball world. Once the league/coaches discovered that once you press Purdue, their guards couldn't operate. See games vs Maryland, us in the second half, PSU in the BTT with about 5 minutes to go, then of course Fairleigh Dickinson. Their guards were specifically the reason that they faltered. That's what we face, as we look forward.
In the absence of any more additions, this is it and we'll see what we have with our fingers crossed.
Plus they were a poor 3 point shooting team.
It wasn't that their guards were freshman.
It was because they were not athletic enough.