When the brackets were revealed and Purdue ended up with North Texas in the first round, Coach Painter and I had a similar problem ... we both hadn’t seen North Texas play. Coach has some of the brightest basketball minds in the nation pouring over hours of game film, and I’m stuck with my dim basketball mind pouring over whatever film is available online. I prefer watching full games, as opposed to highlights, and that left me with North Texas vs UAB from March 6th of this year.
North Texas actually loses this game at home 65-61. It was their last loss of the season before going on a 4 game run through the Conference USA Tournament, knocking off #1 seed Western Kentucky in overtime to take home the trophy, tournament bid, and a date with Purdue.