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

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.
The whiteboard in #Purdue’s locker room#MarchMadness @WISH_TV #BoilerUp pic.twitter.com/J0h7ojvY5P
— Angela Moryan (@AngelaMoryanTV) March 18, 2023
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.
Purdue seems to be haunted by the state of New Jersey 👀 pic.twitter.com/COnRwNqW9R
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) March 18, 2023
Seeing as Purdue beat it - the whiteboard was clearly not a double digit seed https://t.co/IL88XDHQii
— CC (@TheActualCC) March 18, 2023
That about covers it. https://t.co/PVIexUDG0T
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) March 18, 2023
No lie, if you flip that, it’s the exact shape of Bergen County https://t.co/I29sXNO2A3 pic.twitter.com/8gsZgFS9J3
— Brendan Prunty (@BrendanPrunty) March 18, 2023
wondering if this happened on a shot attempt. https://t.co/IKsrt2OqcL
— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) March 18, 2023
“HERE’S FARLEIGH!” https://t.co/fmBQNz1z80 pic.twitter.com/wXNoiZsxwZ
— Cole Thompson (@MrColeThompson) March 18, 2023
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.
