CBB Summer Buzz: Purdue
The Baby Boilers are all grown up and have one last shot at a title
Insider knows you're hot for hoops during the summer, so we're bringing you a closer look at a few of the big-profile schools before most freshmen have even moved into their dorms. We continue today with Purdue.
Purdue Boilermakers
2009-10: 29-6 (NCAA tournament-- Sweet 16)
They'd been pushing their stay in the tournament a little longer each of the previous two seasons and finally had a team full of Indiana natives that projected as a contender in an Indiana-located Final Four for 2009-10. But after do-everything forward Robbie Hummel tore his ACL in the Big Ten stretch run, the Boilermakers watched as in-state neighbor Butler got to live out what was supposed to be their dream season. "It was tough for guys because it was like if Rob wouldn't have gotten hurt, that would've been our story," says junior guard Lewis Jackson, who rushed back from a broken foot to help the Boilermakers compete last season.
To read the summer preview of the Purdue Boilermakers, including news on the incoming freshmen and new roles for upperclassmen, plus season outlooks from Joe Lunardi, Doug Gottlieb and Jay Bilas, you must be an ESPN Insider.
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Insider knows you're hot for hoops during the summer, so we're bringing you a closer look at few of the big-profile schools before most freshmen have even moved into their dorms.
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