The last time Purdue's men's basketball team played a meaningful game, it was being dealt an upset for the ages at last season's NCAA Tournament.

The Boilermakers' 63-58 first-round loss to Fairleigh Dickinson in Columbus, Ohio, seemed less a fluke and more a bad matchup as the game progressed. They couldn't get enough help for National Player of the Year Zach Edey and had trouble keeping the Knights from getting the shots they wanted.

It added up to just the second 16-over-1 victory in NCAA tourney history, sending Purdue into a long offseason that will finally end on Nov. 6 when it starts the new season in West Lafayette, Ind., against Samford.