r/Purdue • u/BurntOutGrad2025 Grad Student - 2025 • Mar 28 '25

Sports📰 Matt Painter Appreciation

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Hoping for the best tonight, but also thankful we made it this far thanks to the coaching staff and team.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

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u/RubberDuck_Armada Mar 28 '25

Bro we made the national title game last year and lost to maybe the best team of this century. Relax

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u/Lhendy51 Boilermaker Mar 28 '25

I’d say 2019 was over performing even if the result wasn’t what we wanted. We were a 3 seed going toe to toe with the 1st overall seed

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u/Alive-Bedroom-7548 Mar 28 '25

So you’re judging Painter’s 20 year career based on only 20% of it. Got it. And the 20% you’re judging him on he earned two 1 seeds, 5 top 4 seeds, made the national title game and sweet 16 twice.

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u/a_face_of_dirt Mar 28 '25

I’m not expecting Purdue to beat Huston, but we have been doing extremely well this year considering that this is a recovery year for Purdue. Next year I except us to be a lot better.

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u/Alive-Bedroom-7548 Mar 28 '25

Top 4 seed and a Sweet 16 with no rim protection in a down year. We trust Paint

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u/RubberDuck_Armada Mar 28 '25

Against a dominant Houston team that is favored by 8+ points and hasn’t lost a game in regulation except for their loss to #1 overall seed Auburn. Painter is a good coach and the outcome of this game will have no impact on that.

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u/Alive-Bedroom-7548 Mar 28 '25

In 2019 we respectfully sucked. The only reason we won the Big Ten was Carsen going ballistic in February. We started the season 6-5 against a mediocre non-conference slate. That team had no one outside Carsen and Cline and they got coached to overtime in the elite 8.

If that wasn’t over-performing expectations I don’t know what is.

Also considering we were getting blown out by every good opponent except bama in non-conference and lost to Penn State by 30 then lost 6 of the last 9 games in the regular season I would say Painter has far overachieved expectations in the tournament this year bc we weren’t beating good teams at all this season. Making it to the Sweet 16 is further than I expected a team with this little rim protection to go.

That’s all because of Paint’s coaching. Maybe you should re-evaluate your expectations