It has been awhile since Purdue has had a higher seed in the NCAA tournament, but now that the boilers are, many people are picking Purdue to be upset. In 2009 Many people felt Northern Iowa would beat Purdue in the First Round, mostly because of Purdue's perceived youth. Never mind that Purdue had just won the Big Ten Tournament, It was a 12/5 game and Northern Iowa had just won the Missouri Valley tournament.
Purdue won 61-56 and went on to the Sweet 16.
A year later Purdue was a 4 seed playing in Spokane. Despite having two excellent player sin JaJuan Johnson and E'Twaun Moore, the narrative was that Robbie Hummel was injured, so Purdue had no idea how to play basketball.