Let the players take the plane back from Denver to West Lafayette. Purdue’s coaches have a stop they ought to make. A stop they’ve got to make.
Hutch is going on now.
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Is there a point guard there? Maybe, maybe not, who knows except the rare breed of scout who scours the junior colleges? But the NJCAA Division I championship has to be worth a long look for coach Matt Painter and his assistants, because the Boilermakers will not reach the success possible for them if they continue down their current path.