Boiler Banter Podcast: Can Purdue Upset No. 1 Seed Houston in Sweet 16?
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Purdue has returned to the Sweet 16 for the sixth time in eight seasons after posting wins over High Point and McNeese in the first two rounds of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. But the challenge is about to get much more difficult, as the Boilermakers now play No. 1 seed Houston on Friday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis (10:09 p.m. ET, truTV/TBS).
On this week's episode of the Boiler Banter Podcast, Brandon Brown and Dustin Schutte discuss Purdue's performance in Providence, the chances of upsetting Houston and the fact that the Boilers are the only team in the Sweet 16 without a transfer player on the roster.
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Dustin Schutte is the publisher of Purdue Boilermakers on SI and has spent more than a decade working in sports journalism. His career began in 2013, when he covered Big Ten football. He remained in that role for eight years before working at On SI to cover the Boilermakers. Dustin graduated from Manchester University in Indiana in 2010, where he played for the men's tennis team.
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