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Gold and Black Illustrated, Vol 27, Digital 2

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42 GOLD AND BLACK ILLUSTRATED P urdue had just concluded its intrasquad scrimmage prior to its August trip to Spain and Caleb Swanigan stood on the court at Lafayette Jefferson High School afterward drenched in sweat, the stuff dripping off the back of his head as if his hair was an overwhelmed sponge. Someone asked the Boilermaker sophomore and veteran of two overseas tours with USA Basketball about the travel advice he might offer team- mates. "Make sure you pack enough underwear," Swanigan replied. It was funny, atypically funny for a player who showed one side of himself and one side only during an eventful freshman year. It was not the funny side. That Swanigan delivered the quip without so much as breaking that sto- ic, brick-wall expression of his, though, epitomized the dichotomy that is Caleb Swanigan at Purdue this season. One on hand, the guard is down — or at least more down than it's been 'UNPACKED' Swanigan settled in now at Purdue and poised to benefit BY BRIAN NEUBERT BNeubert@GoldandBlack.com Tom Campbell

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