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volume 23, EX 22 ��� feb. 18, 2013 Inside | Boilers lose two on road 6-7 | Hoops notes 9-11 John Anthrop feature 12-13 | Women fall at home 17-18 ���Not that far off��� BY BRIAN NEUBERT BNeubert@GoldandBlack.com a 37-point romp in West Lafayette. ���They���re a coach for them not to be where they just young. I don���t want to feel too sympa- should be moving forward.��� thetic because I think they���re going to be While Crean talked up the Boilermakespite two blowout losses this week, really good. ers��� future, seeming genuine in his praise Indiana coach Tom Crean says the ���I just think Matt (Painter)���s too good and undoubtedly knowing there���s no reBoilermakers are not cruiting benefit for him that far off from being whatsoever in calling competitive. It takes Painter ���one of the best one to know one as Crecoaches in the country,��� an���s suffered through Painter sat in a cramped three losing seasons room in the opposite corbefore turning the IU ner of Assembly Hall agoprogram around. nizing over the present. Crean is the last perHis team is hardly son Purdue fans probrecognizable from past ably want to hear from editions, sitting at 12-14 about the future of their overall and 5-8 in the Big basketball program. Ten, all of its conference But Indiana���s coach���s losses coming by doublecomments following his figures, six of the eight by top-ranked team���s sec15 or more points. ond-consecutive laugher When Painter got of a win over the Boilerejected from Purdue���s makers bear mentioning. 20-point loss at Illinois ���I don���t think they���re Wednesday night, he that far off. I really don���t,��� looked like a coach who���d Jamie Owens Crean said after Indiana reached his boiling point. beat Purdue 83-55 Sat- Jacob Lawson appears to show some energy here, smacking IU Big Ten Player-of-the-Year candidate Cody After the Indiana urday a few weeks after Zeller. But, for the most part, the Boilermakers lacked collective fight in another blowout to the Hoosiers. D THE Numbers 1 3.26 2 1 The games in the last 29 years a Purdue women���s basketball team has lost by 20 or more points at home (in conference games only) before Sunday���s 72-52 loss to Iowa. Minutes per rebound for Sandi Marcius, the best mark on the team, in front of A.J. Hammons��� 3.73 minutes. Marcius had seven boards in 17 minutes against IU. The fewest wins in February under Matt Painter at Purdue, which occurred in his first season of 2005-06 when it finished 9-20 overall. Wins for men���s basketball in February to date this year, with two games left to play. game, he sounded that way when asked if he���s more frustrated than he���s ever been in his career. ���No doubt about it,��� Painter said. ���Because we have the talent, but we don���t have the toughness. We need guys who will live in the gym. You can be upset when people beat you or you can learn from it. That���s what I just told our guys.��� The Boilermaker coach is interested to see how his players respond, but he���s been interested all season, only to be disappointed far more often than not. Purdue had won four of five games prior to its first meeting with Indiana. It lost that game by a historic margin and has since lost four of five, all of them in onesided fashion. GoldanDBlack express ��� volume 23, express 22��� ������ 1