Purdue, IU Suffer in Different Ways
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The natural order here is that Indiana basketball has a God complex and Purdue has an inferiority complex. That’s the starting point when these schools play each other, as they did Wednesday night.
Purdue crushed Indiana, as everyone does. This one was 74-55, but winning and losing wasn’t as neat and orderly as it sounds. Indiana is a shambles of a program, and Purdue has had everything lined up perfectly to finally win the national championship, including the Final Four in its home state.
This has been the perfect year for this Charlie Brown of a program. And then, someone pulled the football away again. Robbie Hummel, the team’s best player, heart and soul, glue, you name it — blew out his knee a few days ago. He tore his ACL and is out for the year. Last year, he cracked his vertebrae when Purdue was looking good.
Now, Purdue is not going to get a No. 1 seed, not going to reach the Final Four. Deep down, everyone here knows it, though they say things like senior tough guy Chris Kramer said Wednesday night about why he chose to come to Purdue out of high school when the team was awful.
“I could see the light at the end,” he said.
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