GoldandBlack.com Saturday Simulcast: Purdue hoops roster moves and more
Purdue roster talk In our April 12, 2025 edition of Saturday Simulcast. GoldandBlack.com’s Brian Neubert discusses the latest happenings and how it impacts the roster formation for the 2025-26 version of Boilermaker basketball with host Alan Karpick.
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ON PRESEASON PURDUE HYPE
Yes, this all may be coming together perfectly for Purdue to make another Final Four run for a season in which the run to the Final Four is like 60 miles.
But understand, too, that while Purdue should benefit from the college game getting younger without COVID seniors everywhere and continuity everywhere more scarce, this will be more of a reinvention season than it might seem, because Purdue will be introducing real guys as newcomers to an established team. That went swimmingly with Lance Jones, but that was one guy, and he was an exception, not a rule.
Moreover, last year’s Purdue team had a really special undercurrent to it. It was mad as hell and it wasn’t gonna take it anymore, so when people kissed their collective you-know-whats in the media or out on the town, none of it mattered.
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This team’s best players have been there. They couldn’t finish the job, but they got there. This is not a collection of personalities prone to contentedness, but it hasn’t been shamed, either. There’s no real apparent redemption arc, if one would be needed. Should it? Not necessarily. But it’s what worked before. And Zach Edey’s machine-ish relentlessness helped, too.
Anyway, I’m just saying that next season is just like last season: Purdue’s standard shouldn’t be its non-conference schedule or its Big Ten competition. It is the very best version of itself. The standard should be greatness.
That can’t possibly be an easily attainable standard. Last time Purdue met it, it had some dynamics helping it along that may or may not be replicable.
