On December 9th, the Purdue basketball team traveled to Austin to take on Shaka Smart’s Texas Longhorns reeling. They were in the middle of their toughest stretch of games on the schedule and they were starting to pile up the losses.
Virginia Tech came back in the second half to beat Purdue in the Charleston Classic Championship. Purdue flat out gave away what would have been a marquee win on the road against Florida St.. Michigan made it very clear that they were the best team in the Big Ten and Purdue wasn’t even on their level.