WEST LAFAYETTE – Welcome to a Purdue athletics doubleheader!
Boilermaker basketball, fresh off winning the title at the Baha Mar Championship in the Bahamas, is the opening act of the afternoon, putting its elite unit on the floor at Mackey Arena for the first time in 12 days and first time this season while at full strength as the No. 1 team in the country.
Later tonight, Boiler football will get to see what an elite unit looks like from the opposite sideline as it takes on No. 2 Indiana in the Old Oaken Bucket Game at Ross-Ade Stadium.
First up, coach Matt Painter's crew. Purdue hoops is coming off easily its best performance of the season, an 86-56 drubbing of then-No. 15 Texas Tech that was the most lopsided win for a Big Ten opponent in 46 years. That mark stood for all of five day

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