When word leaked a few minutes before the game that true freshman Jaden Ivey would be missing the game with a foot injury, the already short handed Boilermakers were in for some trouble.
Ivey, who scored in double-digits the night before in his first career game, is the athletic, big, attacking kind of point guard that would be able to counter balance a defense that likes to get in your face and press an offense. The absence was even more glaring when Purdue was also without lead guard Eric Hunter Jr. who is recovering from a fractured tibia.