No amount of snow and white outside was going to keep the Purdue faithful from ‘blacking out’ Mackey Arena. Despite West Lafayette getting a heavy blanket of snow all morning and into the afternoon, Mackey Arena was filled to capacity and loud, eagerly awaiting the first of two match-ups against the arch-rival Indiana Hoosiers.
In a
state where basketball is life, and allegiances are chosen at birth, the
Purdue-IU doesn’t take into accounts records or rankings. It doesn’t matter
that IU had lost their last three contests, or that Purdue had won their last
two and are playing their best basketball of the season.