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Minnesota Basketball: Can the Gophers beat #4 Purdue? Here are your 3 keys.

And the schedule doesn’t get any easier. At least it’s at home (?).

#4 Purdue

Mascot: Boilermakers
Record: 18-3
KenPom Rank: 8

This would be a potential storm-the-court caliber of a win. Can they pull it off?

KEYS TO A GOPHER WIN

Find Great Defense - Purdue has only 3 losses all year and in each of them they struggled to score. This is the #1 most efficient offense in the country at almost 1.25 points per possession. In their 3 losses they around 1.03 or less.

No Hero Ball - This is my new pet peeve and I don’t think it is a Gopher epidemic (or is it a pandemic?