It has been a difficult few days in West Lafayette.

Purdue fell from the ranks of the unbeaten on Saturday in dramatic fashion, blown out at the hands of Iowa State, 81-58, in the worst loss for a No. 1 team at home in 30 years.

Now down to No. 6 in the polls, the Boilermakers have spent the time since licking their wounds and figuring out what went wrong in a loss to the Cyclones that was as unexpected as it was lopsided. They’ll try to regroup tonight with a return to Big Ten play against Minnesota at Mackey Arena.

After looking at the film, the Boilers (8-1, 1-0 Big Ten) came away believing there were two main problems against Iowa State and that those issues were interrelated. First, Purdue did not make open shots at nearly the rate it usually does. Then, it grew fixated on those mi

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