Purdue will face 11th-seeded NC State in Final Four
Purdue center Zach Edey reacts near Tennessee guard Dalton Knecht after the team defeated Tennessee in an Elite Eight college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament on March 31 in Detroit.By the time all the scrapping and scratching and diving on the floor was over, it felt like a shame that both those teams, and both those players, weren’t moving onto the Final Four.
“You’re not trying to take away 100 per cent, you’re trying to take away maybe 80 per cent of what he’s trying to get accomplished,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said of Knecht. “But we don’t take Zach for granted. He could've scored 50 tonight if he'd made his free throws.” “We had to take it,” Painter said of the abuse that came last year. “Sometimes when you sit in it and you’re honest with yourself and you take it, some great things can happen.”
They were looking for history, and they got it – along with the game ball that Boilermakers guard Fletcher Loyer chucked about 20 rows into the crowd when the buzzer went off. Barnes refused to make an issue out of Edey’s 22 free throws or the final foul tally: Tennessee 25, Purdue 12.
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