WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- As reigning Big Ten champion Purdue approaches Tuesday's home game against Wisconsin, the team is doing all it can to ignore superlatives and focus on basketball.
Purdue (17-2, 6-0 Big Ten) will look to tie the best 20-game start in program history with a win over the Badgers, and its best since the 1987-88 season.
Ranked No. 3 in the most recent polls and riding a 13-game win streak, the Boilermakers received one of 65 first-place votes, the first such vote since 1994 when Purdue reached the Final Four.
Senior center Isaac Haas, who averages 14.