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Northwestern at Purdue: Preview, Odds, & How to Watch

After Saturday's "leave a bad taste in your mouth" loss Purdue comes home to face Northwester, perhaps the weakest 17 win team in America. Normally Wildcats fans would be doing backflips to have 18 wins this deep into the season. Their NCAA Tournament drought is famous, but normally 17 wins would have them in contention. This is a program that has had 20 wins in a season just twice, hitting exactly 20 in 2010 and 2011 (with the second needing two NIT wins to get there). This year they have an excellent chance to reach their most wins ever in a single season, yet they are not going to the NCAA tournament unless 1.