PURDUE'S WIN OVER ILLINOIS INVITES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS.

A stepback 3-point endeavor from Matthew Mayer arced into the unfortunate air at Mackey Field as a sellout swarm paused its breathing over the chance of a hard and fast,

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all-time breakdown that would have broken certainty and destroyed force in front of the Huge Ten Competition and the bigger award past.

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Purdue had driven this game by 21 at halftime and 18 focuses with 13:41 excess.

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The Boilermakers had covered Illinois' two best scorers — Mayer and Terrence Shannon Jr. — and gotten startlingly light commitments from monitors Braden Smith,

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and Brandon Newman in all out attack mode end of the floor.

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Significant length of Sunday's customary season finale felt like the ideal get-right game for a plausible No. 1 seed that got through a difficult situation in February.

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Seven turnovers and nine fouls committed in the last 13 minutes.

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Five sequential misses by Naismith Public Player of the Year competitor Zach Edey. Three missed free tosses.

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