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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. _ Purdue coach Gene Keady hopes history repeats itself. What choice does he have? Because if it doesn't, if the Boilermakers continue their non-conference efficiency, Big Ten disaster is coming.
And so Keady turns for encouragement to the 1996-97 season, when Purdue went 5-5 before January and 13-7 after, when it won four of its last five regular season games and reached the second round of the NCAA tourney.
"We were 5-5 and came home after Oklahoma and TCU just killed us and won our first game at Illinois," Keady said. "That got us going."
But that team had center Brad Miller, guards Chad Austin and Alan Eldridge, and ...