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Purdue men's basketball will play an exhibition game against Kentucky in a challenging road environment.

Coach Matt Painter schedules difficult exhibition games to better prepare his team for the regular season.

The matchup will test Purdue's guards against Kentucky's Otega Oweh, the Preseason SEC Player of the Year.

.WEST LAFAYETTE — Matt Painter scheduled Kentucky for Purdue men’s basketball ’s first exhibition for reasons surpassing the Wildcats’ roster.

The Boilermakers want the electrified nostalgia of playing a top-10 team in historic Rupp Arena. They will absorb whatever unpleasantries the denizens in the eRUPPtion Zone — the standing room-only student section — dish out.

What they need, though, is the best game this ninth-ranked Kentucky team can

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