At Purdue, simply making the tournament should be the bare minimum expectation each season. Our program has grown to the point that it can recruit enough talent to reach the NCAA Tournament every year. In those special years, a Sweet 16 appearance becomes the next expectations. Once you are there anything can happen. You could luck out like Kentucky, with a completely broken bracket. You could get another team’s “bad game”. Sometimes it takes equal parts good basketball and luck to get this far. Last year we played to our seed, got this far, and got blasted.
2018 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16: Purdue vs. Texas Tech Preview
