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should be: On continuing to ���I would say the process is ongoing. We still improve. have to be able to do some basic things: Our ���The thing is we win a couple games, (but) we can���t let free throw shooting, our attention to detail at ourselves get a big head,��� Byrd times, especially when we get a lead, carrysaid. ���Sometimes we���ve done ing out our assignments. We haven���t been as that in the past where we come consistent as we need to be in some of those out, maybe take some bad areas, and we have to be a better defensive shots, maybe not focus as group.��� much on defense. It doesn���t Matt Painter when asked whether the Boilers were a ���good team yet��� followThe following are our thoughts now, in the last week of January. matter how many games ing three straight wins or whether the process was still ongoing Kyle Charters: ���Iowa just has Purdue���s number, especially at we win in a row ��� we have home. It was a year ago that Sharon Versyp���s squad started 8-0 in to keep the same attitude the conference before being blasted in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. And and do the right things.��� j Purdue was 4-0 this season, before suffering a 16-point loss to the Hawkeyes. But the Boilermakers will have a chance to recover the next two weeks, with two home games against doormats North... all the fun western and Indiana sandwiched around a tough one at Michigan TWEET OF THE State.��� WEEK Stacy Clardie: ���After tying its longest winning streak of the season with three in a row, the men���s basketball team is trending up���#WoW ward. But we������ll find out quickly whether those wins actually were ... all the food Bernard building blocks or just fool���s gold, as Matt Painter likes to say, with Michigan and Indiana coming in the next 10 days.��� Pollard Alan Karpick: ���Coach Matt Painter���s team is starting to look like a squad that can beat one of the ���Big Four��� teams it has left on its might just be schedule that have to pay a visit to Mackey Arena (IU, MSU, Michi- the hardest ... all the comfort gan and Minny). But, it���s important to gather confidence in Ann Arbor on Thursday by hanging with the very talented Wolverines. hitting safety Purdue hasn���t beaten a No. 2 ranked team on the road since it beat in Football... Michigan in 1965. I wish I could say I hadn���t been born yet.��� Brian Neubert: ���It���s time for things to start coming together in #Purdue��� ... all the services short order for Darrell Hazell, as you can expect a run of verbal comGolden State forward Carl mitments in the next week-plus and, you���d think, the finalization of Landry (@CarlLandry) after Polhis coaching staff, which is left with three more positions to fill. A lard���s hit on New England running month into it now and I still say Hazell���s done all the right things thus back Stevan Ridley in the AFC far for Purdue.��� Championship Sunday. a shot against the Boilermakers. It won���t be that easy against the Wolverines. They���ve lost only once this season ��� at then-No. 15 Ohio State ��� and have one of the best backcourts in the country with Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. They���ll also have had a week off since getting a big victory over then-No. 9 Minnesota on the road. But the Boilermakers need to keep the focus where it GoldanDBlack express ��� volume 23, express 18��� ������ 2