Purdue has a 7-foot, all-conference center in A.J. Hammons.
Matt Painter believes old-school basketball still works.
So the Purdue coach is ditching the small-ball trend and going all in with one of the biggest teams in the nation, hoping it will put the Boilermakers back in the title conversation.
"We want to win the Big Ten. We want to win the Big Ten tournament. We want to make a run to the Final Four," sophomore forward Vince Edwards said. "We want to win the national championship."
It's not as crazy as it sounds for No.