Still a few games from being free of the non-conference portion of the 2018-19 campaign, Shaka Smart’s fourth season on the Forty Acres is already at risk of a free-fall. What was once a 5-0 start fresh off of a win over No. 7 North Carolina has since been smothered by the dark cloud of back-to-back-to-back losses to No. 11 Michigan State, Radford, and VCU.
If the Texas Longhorns are to snap that slump on Sunday, they’ll have to do so at the expense of a fairly formidable Purdue Boilermakers ball club; one led by one of the nation’s elite guards in junior Carsen Edwards.