GOLD AND BLACK ILLUSTRATED VOLUME 28, ISSUE 2 49
BY BRIAN NEUBERT
BNeubert@GoldandBlack.com
W
hen Purdue needed a
bucket to win a game it
needed to win to maybe
have a chance to win the Big Ten,
it turned to its lone freshman for
the play that might have turned the
Boilermakers' season.
Trailing 72-71 with six-and-a-half
seconds left at Maryland — Purdue
had rallied from a dozen-point sec-
ond-half deficit to be in this position
— Matt Painter needed something
quick coming out of a timeout.
He called Carsen Edwards' num-
ber, turning to a rookie off a roster
full of proven veterans.
"If you get stuck," Painter said af-
terward, "you'd rather have the ball
in his hands."
So the freshman it was.
He inbounded from the left side-
line, standing just a few feet from
his coach, then threw in to junior
and namesake Vincent Edwards, who
set the screen Carsen Edwards used
to turn the corner once the ball was
dealt back to him.
Instead of pulling up for a difficult
jumper — and there aren't many
players in college basketball who
shoot a better difficult jumper — Ed-
wards waited it out as he approached
the rim, finally going up for a base-
line shot that drew heavy contact and
a subsequent whistle, the call made
right in front of Maryland's student
THIS CLOSE
Carsen
Edwards
seems
to be
on the
verge
of big
things
for
Purdue
