It was met with the kind of eruption only a Mackey Arena crowd can deliver, but Purdue basketball coach MattPainter did not absorb the moment. Painter coached a Final Four team last season.
Izzo said he rooted hard to pass the torch to Boilermakers coach MattPainter. “I’m calling, ‘Matt, Matt, you’ve got to win this game,’” Izzo said last week at Big Ten Media Day.
That was one of the biggest takeaways for coach MattPainter from the charity exhibition game against Creighton. Purdue dropped a 93-87 contest to the Bluejays on Saturday. It was a game in which ...