Good to know! I didn't hear that. Makes sense.We wanted him to foul. We wanted Purdue in the bonus, so that if we needed to turn it into a FT shooting contest in the last 30 seconds, we could. We didn't want our regulars to pick up fouls for that purpose. It was Amani's job. At least that's what Brad said post-game... (around 11:30 in his post-game presser)
Still, even if you remove that game entirely from the sample, Amani was committing a foul every 3.7 min he played in conference. The point still stands that while he has great potential, and could very well be an amazing 25 min/game big next year, it's probably not a great idea to rely on him being that kind of player just yet.