Newsflash, Ohio State had a bad day in West Lafayette — again. While I — and probably most of Buckeye Nation — am still in the process of repressing, or even attempting to erase, the memory of the gridiron beatdown Purdue put on the Ohio State football team back in the fall, I couldn’t help but have those memories flood back into my mind again; this time around, it revolved around the hardwood. Thanks to Indiana’s upset earlier on Saturday over No. 6 Michigan State, Matt Painter’s Purdue Boilermakers control their own destiny in the Big Ten, and they showed their urgency to play well (and win) on Saturday. Unfortunately, OSU had to face these Boilers on Senior Day. At halftime, the home team had scored 48 points, nailing eight three-pointers in the process; Chris Holtmann’s Buckeyes had a whopping 20 points at the break. Nothing was going right for…
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