Four years ago, four seniors found themselves in West Lafayette with the intent to right the ship and turn the Purdue basketball program later.
Four years and four consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament later, including back to back Sweet 16 appearances, Dakota Mathias, PJ Thompson, Vincent Edwards, and Isaac Haas’s careers will end in Boston, Massachusetts after a loss in the Sweet Sixteen for the second straight time, this time falling to the Texas Tech Red Raiders, 78-65.
The biggest story line of the last two games has been Purdue’s biggest player, Isaac Haas, and his absence on the court thanks to a fractured elbow suffered in Purdue’s opening round game against Cal-State Fullerton.