{"id":21152,"date":"2024-03-19T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21152"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:19:47","slug":"looking-for-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/looking-for-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/purdueloss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21241 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/purdueloss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/purdueloss.jpg 707w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/purdueloss-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By nearly every metric, these last four season of Purdue men&#8217;s basketball have been the most successful in program history. They&#8217;ve won back-to-back conference championships.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve won 59 Big Ten games, setting a school record and tying the conference record.<\/p>\n<p>The one metric where they have fallen short is in the NCAA tournament.\u00a0 Heading into this year&#8217;s tournament, they have put together two first round exits, against 13-seed North Texas in 2021 and 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson last year, becoming just the second 1-seed to fall in the opening round.\u00a0 In 2022, they advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, where they were felled by 15-seed St. Peter&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue enters the tournament this week as the #1 seed in the Midwest region and look to have an achievable path to the Final Four.\u00a0 But they are coming off of a rough Big Ten tournament, where they scored a season-low 67 points in their victory over Michigan State before losing to Wisconsin in the semi-finals.\u00a0 While Zach Edey was able to get his, scoring 29 and 28 points respectively, Lance Jones was the only other Boilermaker to reach double digits in either game, scoring 10 against Michigan State.\u00a0 The so-called supporting cast answered the bell all year, but if they disappear once again in the tournament, Purdue will once again be on the outside looking in and will have squandered their best chance in decades at making the Final Four, let alone winning a national championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By nearly every metric, these last four season of Purdue men&#8217;s basketball have been the most successful in program history. They&#8217;ve won back-to-back conference championships.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve won 59 Big Ten games, setting a school record and tying the conference record. The one metric where they have fallen short is in the NCAA tournament.\u00a0 Heading into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[2698,5520,289,8387,11184,2110,1527,9329,10007,2146,10585],"class_list":["post-21152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-big-ten","tag-big-ten-tournament","tag-boiler-up","tag-fairleigh-dickinson","tag-lance-jones","tag-michigan-state","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-north-texas","tag-st-peters","tag-wisconsin","tag-zach-edey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21242,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21152\/revisions\/21242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}