Curiosity often gets the best of me. It is part of the reason this blog started many years ago. When I get an idea in my head it tends to eat at me until I can get an answer. After the last two games I had a pretty reasonable question: Just how good is Purdue when it comes to close games?
The common narrative I saw yesterday is that coach Painter and his teams struggle in close games, but what is really the case? First, let’s try to come up with the definition of a close game. I will go with one that is within a single possession sometime after the last media timeout.