The Boilermakers become the second No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed. “It’s hard. It’s a very hard thing,” Purdue Coach Matt Painter said. “… Obviously it hurts. We’ve got to face it. We’ve got to deal with it. We’ve got to come back stronger.”
Alongside Virginia in all future references and winces will mope Purdue, the emphatic Big Ten regular season and tournament champion which lost 63-58 to anonymous FDU Friday night in front of a sold-out and flipped-out crowd, becoming the second of the 152 No. 1 seeds to lose to a No. 16 seed since this seeding construct in this delirious annual event began in 1985.
Purdue, like Virginia, wound up as the backdrop as people began to answer the question, What the hell do those initials mean? If it looked like it probably wouldn’t happen even with FDU’s 32-31 lead at halftime, it looked like it most probably wouldn’t happen as Purdue carefully built a 46-41 lead with 12 minutes left.
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