This is from McPaper:
…something in the DNA of what Painter has built desperately needs to change.
… the trend this program has built over three straight March disasters cannot stand. It’s not acceptable.
North Texas. Saint Peter’s. And now, Fairleigh Dickinson.
Once is a fluke. Twice is a problem. Three times isn’t just embarrassing, it's damning.
When things got even a little bit tense, Purdue completely curled up and turned what had been routine all season into catastrophe.
You lose that game because you’re scared of it. Because you don’t have the mentality and the toughness to win it.
[They had a SHRINK accompany them to the tournament. Their 7’4” star is a black hole of shyness over his height.]
When the game was in the balance, Fairleigh Dickinson never wavered. Purdue ran, hid and hoped for a collapse from its opponent…
The Boilermakers were timid. They were unintelligent. They were everything their critics accused them of being after the awful NCAA Tournament exits the last two years.
…whatever it is, Purdue is a program that hums along from November until the conference tournament and then completely implodes when everybody else puts their best foot forward.
