Purdue assistant coach Terry Johnson motions during the first half of an NCAA men’s basketball game, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette. Terry Johnson has lived out this chapter before. After a 10-year career as an assistant coach at Butler, Johnson and the rest of Chris Holtmann’s staff joined him in making the move to Ohio State during the summer of 2017. The move wasn’t made without significant emotion, but Holtmann, Johnson, Ryan Pedon and Mike Schrage all took the opportunity to join the Big Ten and inherit a Buckeyes team reeling from a season that ended without even an NIT invite. That team went to Portland, Oregon, to participate in the PK80 Invitational. So did Butler, and when both teams split their first two games of the tournament they drew a Sunday showdown against each other that was more than a little awkward for all…
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