Purdue's Game Notes in advance of last night's encounter heralded Caleb Swanigan, Vincent Edwards and Isaac Haas as "The Nation's Best Frontline."
Thus, the trio's first half stat line provides empirical evidence of how good the Cardinals' defensive game plan and execution of it was.
In the first 20 minutes, Swanigan was 0/2 from the field, didn't get to the line and corralled 4 rebounds. Edwards was 0/4 from the field, didn't get to the line with 3 rebounds. Haas -- truly a mountain of a man, he dwarfs Matz Stockman -- was 0/6 from the field, hit one of his two FT attempts and had only three boards.