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Ten title.
I'm certain Purdue hasn't had to stash Dakota Mathias in
fraudulent classes to move him through the program.
P.J. Thompson wasn't delivered to Purdue by anyone be-
side his parents.
And I promise you that Vincent Edwards pays for his
shoes; his shoes don't pay for him.
Isaac Haas' hands are too big for hundred-dollar hand-
shakes anyway.
These are Purdue's seniors, the bedrock of a team built
Painter's way, players who'll show how much experience
really does matter in college basketball nowadays, four
guys who'll leave with degrees, their grades given by actual
teachers, not that secretary in Chapel Hill.
Purdue, and those like it, are what college basketball is
supposed to be, what fans would prefer it to be, I think, and
many think it is, when it's not.
Purdue enjoyed a great season last year, one of the most
memorable of the program's modern era. It won a cham-
pionship, reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tour-
nament, then ran into one of those programs no one looks
forward to seeing on the court or recruiting trail, for a lot
of reasons.
It wasn't the first time Purdue met that sort of hard ceil-
ing in March, and it won't be the last.
Sometimes doing things a certain way can take you only
so far.
That doesn't mean that Sept. 26 wasn't one of those days
where it's all worth it.
j
Neubert can be contacted
at BNeubert@GoldandBlack.com
