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‘Will Purdue fall to High Point in NCAA Tournament?’

For over a century, the Lafayette Journal and Courier was the bastion of Boilermaker bravado, carrying daily stories and photo spreads forever expounding the virtues of ole Purdue, hyping its hometown heroes.

On gamedays, copies would sell out from vendor boxes and local stores. Paperboys would walk the hills of tailgaters with special sections for each game, surefire sales everywhere they went.

Now the once-great newspaper has become a total shitshow, overtaken, downsized and rewritten by its bitch sister paper, The Indianapolis Star. Coverage now reflects that utter rag with its views from deep behind the crimson curtain.

This just past winter, while Purdue maintained its basketball prominence in the national rankings throughout the season, the J&C webpage instead displayed only the photo gallery for Purdue’s absurd loss in the Bucket game, showing iu football players celebrating for FOUR MONTHS.

And now as Purdue attempts to follow up on its trip to the 2024 NCAA Final Four, we see the J&C’s web page offering a week-long headline asking “Will Purdue fall to High Point in the NCAA Tournament?” Unsuitable for Purdue puppies to crap on.

Check it out and toss them a comment -- https://www.jconline.com/

So who had this team @ 12 losses?

Unless we win the B10 tournament, we likely finish with 12 losses.

Who guessed that right?

Knew the talent was off past the top 3-4, but never thought 12 loses. Never thought we would lose to PSU, and then OSU & W @ home. Esp. with 2 All B10 guys.

Here's one guy hoping they make some late tournament runs & salvage this season. Maybe even hold losses to 11 by winning the B10 tournament. Go Boilers!!

Purdue men's basketball Injury updates - Loyer and Burgess talk ailments

Fletcher Loyer's injury was pretty public - he told me he hurt the elbow as he tries to catch himself falling against Michigan. The elbow 'sprain' of some variety doesn't appear to be holding Loyer back as Purdue prepares for High Point. He said he was pretty active all week and was a full participant in the part of practice we were able to watch today in Providence. He told me he'll be wearing a sleeve with a pad just in case it gets bumped, but judging from how he looked on the court, he should be fully good to go on Thursday.

A lesser known injury is something Raleigh Burgess told me he's been dealing with since around the west coast trip to Oregon. Burgess says he has some kind of stress injury to his calf muscle. He's been seen for the last month walking around in a boot when he was off the court and that's a measurement Purdue has taken to limit hurting the calf any further. Guessing this is similar to what Loyer struggled through as a freshman. Burgess says he's good to play but also admitted the calf won't really heal until the spring/summer when the season is over and he can fully rest it to let it recover. Definitely could be part of why Burgess has been ceding minutes to Berg. Burgess has looked a little tentative on it at times, and a muscle injury to the calf certainly isn't gonna help as a player bumps against the freshman wall.
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