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per FSN:
An impressive four-game winning streak has Purdue at 7-3 in the Big Ten entering Saturday's game against Minnesota, but few would argue the Boilermakers are the best team in the conference.
If you ask Gophers coach Richard Pitino, though, they do lead the conference in one category: physical play.
Minnesota found that out the hard way in its first Big Ten game of the season, a game in which the Gophers couldn't close out late and lost on the road to Purdue by a 72-68 final. Pitino's squad gets a chance to redeem itself after that late December game, but the Gophers will have to find a way to match the physical nature of the Boilermakers.
"They're the most physical team in our conference by far. It's not even close. They're so physical," Pitino said Friday. "I don't think that they have gotten the best of us in that. We're not an overly physical team, and they are, and we've done a good job of not backing down to that."
http://www.foxsports.com/north/stor...-get-physical-with-purdue-boilermakers-020615
Go Gophers!!
An impressive four-game winning streak has Purdue at 7-3 in the Big Ten entering Saturday's game against Minnesota, but few would argue the Boilermakers are the best team in the conference.
If you ask Gophers coach Richard Pitino, though, they do lead the conference in one category: physical play.
Minnesota found that out the hard way in its first Big Ten game of the season, a game in which the Gophers couldn't close out late and lost on the road to Purdue by a 72-68 final. Pitino's squad gets a chance to redeem itself after that late December game, but the Gophers will have to find a way to match the physical nature of the Boilermakers.
"They're the most physical team in our conference by far. It's not even close. They're so physical," Pitino said Friday. "I don't think that they have gotten the best of us in that. We're not an overly physical team, and they are, and we've done a good job of not backing down to that."
http://www.foxsports.com/north/stor...-get-physical-with-purdue-boilermakers-020615
Go Gophers!!