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Late at night, when he can’t sleep, Fletcher Loyer’s mind sometimes drifts to a dark place.
The Purdue guard flashes back to the Boilermakers’ most recent March implosion, the first-round loss to 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson that the national media deemed a “Chernobyl-level meltdown” and “the NCAA tournament’s biggest upset ever.”
It’s not the Boilermakers’ hail of careless turnovers and wayward 3-pointers that haunts Loyer, nor is it the scathing criticism that head coach Matt Painter and his team endured afterward.