No need for any fluff. Let’s get right to it.
(2) Purdue 79, (11) Texas 77 (West)
Perhaps the least anticipated of all the regional semifinal matchups delivered, without question, the best contest of Thursday night and one of the most dramatic finishes of the tournament.
Texas and Purdue traded blows for a full 40 minutes before Trey Kaufman-Renn’s tip-in of a Braden Smith miss with 0.7 seconds to play sent the Boilermakers back to the Elite Eight for the second time in three years.
Did Kaufman-Renn get away with a slight push or a hook to create the space necessary for the last-second heroics? Texas fans certainly seem to think so, and
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