Boilerpride

A couple comments from my perspective.... Purdue usually does well against teams that try to slow it down and win ugly, or which play tough defense, provided they don't have world beating talent in that system. Virginia was like that in '19 and they barely escaped with their W. Wisconsin is another example and we have handled them pretty well over the years. Purdue from the days of Gene Keady onwards are no strangers to tough defense, we play it with the best of them. At Mackey, our slogan is" "Defense Lives Here". That said, this is not a prototype Purdue team this year and our outside shooting is not nearly as deadly as it usually is. That will limit our potential this year in my opinion. On a positive side, we have a ton of young talent and the 7'4 kid Edey is going to be a superstar before he is done. He will be the best big man we've had and we've had some good ones. At 7-4 with long arms and decent hops, we can always lob it right in there to him near the basket. I think Williams will be a good test for your guys down low, he's a skilled player with alot of size and strength, and a crafty passer. Eric Hunter is our best on ball defender and I think he will do a good job on Hamlet(?), in the past, we have usually been able to frustrate the mid-major alpha scorers we face in the tournament, so we will see if that continues. Super athletic wings are usually more of our weakness. Looks like UNT is a good program heading in the right direction, and I think with their senior leadership, defense, shooting and guard play, they have the potential to be a Cinderella this year. Good luck!