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Purdue’s Locker Room Whiteboard Sums Up How Game Went for Boilermakers

This picture says it all.
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Purdue’s Locker Room Whiteboard Sums Up How Game Went for Boilermakers
Purdue’s Locker Room Whiteboard Sums Up How Game Went for Boilermakers

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No. 1 Purdue suffered one of the worst losses in college basketball history on Friday night, falling in the first round of the men’s NCAA tournament to No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson 63–58. The Boilermakers became just the second No. 1 seed in the history of the event to lose to a 16-seed.

After the game, someone in the Boilermakers locker room appears to have taken out their frustration on the whiteboard, a photo tweeted by WISH-TV sports anchor Angela Moryan shows.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, there may be no better representation of the Boilermakers’ loss than this.

Naturally, fans and others around college basketball used the opportunity to clown Purdue even more, with some noting that the hole almost bears a resemblance to the state of New Jersey, where Fairleigh Dickinson and the No. 15-seeded team that beat Purdue a year ago—Saint Peter’s—are both located.

After the loss, Matt Painter and his staff have to go back to the drawing board for the 2023–24 season. Unfortunately, they’ll have to replace it first.

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Dan Lyons
DAN LYONS

Dan Lyons is a staff writer and editor at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI for his second stint in November 2024 after a season as senior college football writer at Athlon Sports and previous three-year run at SI as a writer and editor for the Breaking and Trending News team. When he’s not watching a game, you can find Dan at an indie concert venue or movie theater. Dan has a bachelor’s degree in writing and rhetoric from Syracuse.

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