First, the good news. Purdue tried really hard this year to help its schedule imbalance by scheduling the most home games it has ever scheduled in program history. When the original schedule was released, the original intent was to play 28 games of the 56 game regular season at home. That’s wonderful, especially for a “northern” team when the season starts the third weekend in February.
The bad news is that spring weather has not cooperated, and in the end, it could cost Purdue an NCAA Tournament berth. Already one game against Bellarmine (a likely win), one game at Illinois State (a toss-up), and two in conference against Ohio State (with a split very possible) have been completely wiped from the schedule.