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00:00Our first game of the round of 32 on Saturday afternoon
00:04ended the March Magic for McNeese. It was Purdue
00:08and really Purdue all 40 minutes long. DRS the game that we broke down
00:12early on Friday taking that early look at the early lines
00:16for the rest of the weekend. You were saying you loved Purdue minus five and a
00:20half they closed as a six and a half point favorite
00:23and that was the way it went. The Boilermakers in control the entirety of
00:27it winning 76-62 handing McNeese a loss the end of an
00:32era in Lake Charles for Will Wade officially now signing the contract as
00:36NC State's new head coach. The Boilermakers honor the sweet 16 for
00:40a sixth time in the last eight seasons. Yeah and what
00:44it's pretty incredible too because Purdue is ultra efficient. You figured
00:47they wouldn't turn the basketball. They actually had 19 turnovers in that game
00:50and still wanted going away with ease. Who knows if they didn't turn the
00:53basketball over how much more of a margin that would have been on the 76
00:56to 62. I did get caught up a little bit on a parlay where I needed Braden Smith
01:00along with Purdue to win the game to make three three-point shots
01:03drops two in the first nine minutes of the first half. I don't even think he
01:06scored the rest of the way but again you're not playing your best basketball
01:10and easily dispatching of opponents. The one question mark we had too is
01:13we knew McNeese was going to be athletic and try to play great defense
01:16but the offense might be lacking. Five of 13 from the free-throw line only
01:2038 percent 33 percent from the three-point line and 46 percent
01:24total as a team at that point. Usually when you're in the turnover margin by
01:28that much you keep yourself in the ball game
01:29like they played against Clemson but Purdue my handicap in this was
01:33an efficient offense going up against an inefficient team in McNeese State.
01:37Eventually the cream would rise to the top and it did in that game
01:4038 to 20 at the break. It was over immediately.