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Gold and Black Radio: Success for Purdue out West, big one Tuesday night

by:Derek Schultz•about 10 hours
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Purdue men’s basketball talk with GoldandBlack.com beat writer Brian Neubert and host Derek Schultz. The duo looks back at last week’s success at Washington and Oregon and the challenges of returning home to face Ohio State Tuesday night (Jan. 21, 2025).

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ON PURDUE’S WINNING FORMULAS

(EXCERPT FROM BRIAN NEUBERT’S “THREE THOUGHTS” COLUMN_

This season is a reminder that there is no blueprint, not at Purdue, at least, as the parallels to 2019-2020 grow even stronger. That was an atypical Matt Painter team, as this one is, but figured things out as it went.

Purdue’s growth into one the best post-rules-changes defensive teams Painter’s had has been shocking, and a profound credit to all those involved. It’s dominated during this winning streak and almost completely struck some real deficiencies from relevance.

The offense, tweaked to feature Trey Kaufman-Renn, the polar opposite of Zach Edey, has been very good, again. Once Purdue got away from the SEC, its limitations didn’t go away, but they stopped mattering.

Purdue has real momentum right now, and has served everyone a stark reminder that seasons are not defined by what happens early. Teams get better, players get better and sometimes something like Caleb Furst happens.

Sometimes coaches push the right buttons and sometimes losing in December benefits a team in January. Purdue is not used to being embarrassed, and look at what these players have done since Auburn.

This has been a program accustomed to physically overwhelming people and burying them in threes.

Now, Purdue is smaller than many of its peers, but winning with guard play and stifling defense that excuses its threes not falling.

Yeah, Purdue’s had a type of team in the modern era, but was never boxed in to just one type.

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