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vid Boudia, Matthews' career was derailed by injury. After sitting the 2010-11 season due to a bum shoulder, she returned in December of '11 to compete at the USA Diving Winter Nationals. There, she finished 24th, a good start to her comeback. But only months later she was done again, with another shoulder injury. During the second comeback, she was forced to give up the 10-meter dive, in which athletes hit the water at more than 30 mph, and focus on the springboards. Radio Your ultimate Monday morning home for the very latest in Boilermaker athletics. Subscribe via iTunes 10 a.m., Mondays Click here to listen "I had competed on the springboard before, but that's a tough adjustment because it is very different from the platform," she said. "But I think I made the adjustments pretty well." Indeed. — Kyle Charters No. 5 Moving On/Moving In After Purdue's men's basketball team went through what it went through this season, it came as no surprise to see the exit door swing this spring. Three scholarship players left, opting to transfer. Forward Jacob Lawson and guard Anthony Johnson were not surprises. Lawson's minutes had waned and he's awfully far from his North Carolina home; Johnson clearly didn't always see eye to eye with his coaches and is an ambitious player who'll want to find big minutes elsewhere. His outlook at Purdue next season was a bleak one. But big man Sandi Marcius might have been considered a surprise. After his play late in the year served as a bright spot in an otherwise woebegone season, Marcius opted to graduate Athletic director Morgan Burke has been firm in his stance that Purdue wouldn't budge on the issue. Marcius landed at DePaul in mid-May. As players left, others came. After losing Marcius as a fifth-year transfer, Painter sought such transfers himself and came up with at least one. Cornell forward Errick Peck, an Indianapolis native and former Indiana All-Star, gives Tom Campbell Purdue options at both forward spots after the Purdue had three departures following its season, but the biggest surprise was Sandi Marcius, who is headed to 6-7 frontcourt player DePaul for his last year. averaged 10 points and transfer in order to spend and five rebounds last his final season of eligibility season for the Big Red, improvelsewhere. ing as the season went on after Purdue wanted Marcius back missing his junior year due to a and Matt Painter attempted to knee injury. talk him out of leaving, but grantAnd Purdue may not be ed his release without qualifica- done adding fifth-year players, tions. A mild controversy ensued, by all accounts, and continues to however, after Marcius' camp look into options for a big man or brought to light via the media a guard to add to next season's that Purdue refused to pay for the roster, potentially in the form of final two summer school classes a transfer. Marcius needs to graduate and — Brian Neubert subsequently transfer. No. 4 Big Ten realigns Changes to the Big Ten's division al alignment and scheduling could have quite the impact on Purdue football. Not only did the Boilermakers land in the presumed "weaker" division — the West also includes Illinois, Minnesota, Northwestern, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin — but they also got the only crossdivision annual rivalry game by keeping Indiana on the schedule. Purdue is 72-37-6 all time against the Hoosiers. And with commissioner Jim Delany's revelation that conference schedules early in the realignment will focus on pitting the prime, established winning teams head-to-head in the other cross-division games, Purdue could catch even more of a break. Not that new coach Darrell Hazell is thinking of it that way. "Every single football game you play is hard to win. I don't care who you're playing," he said one day after the announcement. "If you're not getting bet- GoldanDBlack express • volume 23, express 30 • 5