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A day after the Purdue football game couldn’t figure out how to score or how to stop their opponent from scoring it was the men’s basketball team’s chance to show what they could do. Sure, this game doesn’t count in the standing and it won’t go down in history as a great game, but it was exactly what Purdue needed to do. 40 minutes of solid basketball from a squad with a lot of questions. Now, to be clear those questions aren’t about the talent on the team, far from it, the questions are how these new players would play together, who would start, and how the minutes would be distributed. We didn’t get answers to all of those questions today, again, it’s an exhibtion, but it’s hard not to like what Purdue fans saw on the court this afternoon.
John Wooden Memorial Player of the Game (JWMPOTG): Gicarri Harris gets the nod for me here. He continues to improve each season and found himself in the starting lineup for this one. He finished the leading scorer with 16 but also had 2 rebounds and 5 assists. An overall great game for the junior who played 21 minutes.
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With Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer, TKR, and Oscar Cluff all gone Purdue had four open starting spots to fill. To start this one Purdue ran out Omer Mayer, CJ Cox, Gicarri Harris, Caden Pierce, and Daniel Jacobsen. I will admit I was wrong as I didn’t think that Painter would start Cox and Harris both and given that Cox is the lone returning starter I thought he would get the nod. But that’s why Painter makes millions and I make…slightly less. That starting lineup played well with the Boilermakers jumping out to an early lead and never letting it go. It made some cosmic sense that CJ Cox scored the first points to open this one.
Painter ran out a near hockey line change for his first subs leaving only CJ Cox out there and bringing in Luke Ertel, Antione West, Jack Benter, and Raleigh Burgess. This was Purdue fans first official looks at Ertel and West with Burgess returning from a redshirt. All four looked…
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