Purdue basketball championship deficiencies exposed vs Iowa State

WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue basketball’s worst offensive performance of the season, courtesy of Iowa State’s defensive clinic, infected the other end of the floor as well.

The most damning statement after the Boilermakers’ 81-58 loss was not one of the characterizations of its magnitude. Matt Painter dropped several folksy descriptions of his team's undoing, referencing “intestinal fortitude,” a “smorgasbord” of defensive lapses and a team taken “to the woodshed.”