Purdue head coach Matt Painter in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana in West Lafayette, Ind., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Jeffrey D. Nicholls/Post-Tribune Post-Tribune sports writer Michael Osipoff
Perhaps it should have been abundantly clear when Purdue lost at Northwestern. Or maybe when the Boilermakers lost at Illinois. But there seemed to have been at least a glimmer of hope for them to make the postseason, even the NCAA Tournament, as farfetched as …
