Purdue runs with Kansas for about fifteen minutes -- then Kansas kicks it into high gear and runs over Purdue and into the Elite Eight.
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The Good Guys escaped a determined Iowa State team to advance to the Sweet 16, joining Michigan and Wisconsin as second-round winners. It's the ninth straight year the conference has sent two or more teams to the regionals; will it be the fourth time in five years the Big Tenteen is represented in the regional finals?
What better way to prepare for tomorrow's Purdue-Kansas Sweet 16 game than to livetweet Big Dog and Cuonzo's win over Kansas in the 1994 Sweet 16?
THE FIRST ROUND CURSE IS OVER. The Boilermakers advance on the backs of Vince Edwards and National Player of the Year Caleb Swanigan (yeah I said it), and have a shot at the Sweet 16 this Saturday.
Edwards might be the key to tourney success...We look ahead to the first day of the tournament and this evening versus Vermont.
Any way you slice it, Purdue needs its junior trio of Isaac Haas, Vince Edwards, and Dakota Mathias to be a Sweet 16 (or beyond) team. Kenpom and Basketball Reference did all the hard work.
Despite midseason predictions to the contrary, the Big Tenteen sent a normal-sized group of teams to the Big Dance. Here's our guide for whom to watch (when the Good Guys aren't on, of course), when and why.