Former Virginia Cavaliers offer advice to the Purdue Boilermakers on making a comeback after losing as a No. 1 seed to a No. 16 seed in March Madness.
Purdue had just fallen unexpectedly in the Big Ten Tournament last week and Braden Smith sat down alongside star Zach Edey and coach Matt Painter to meet reporters. It took three questions to conjure a March Madness specter: the Boilermakers’ improbable loss as a No. 1 seed to 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson in last year’s NCAA Tournament. 'I don’t think we’re really worried about what happened last year,' Smith said matter-of-factly. NO. 1 PURDUE, NO.
Purdue is my champion this year, in my bracket,' he said before the field was even set. Now it’s up to the Boilermakers to follow the Cavaliers’ path through that wilderness. 'Yeah, we are trying to prove ourselves from last year because we shouldn’t have lost to FDU,' forward Mason Gillis said. 'But we know we can’t change that. The only thing that we can do is go out and play our best every single game from here on out.
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