Now that the time of the season is here when everything matters a little more, and anything can matter most, Purdue will obviously need many, many things to fall in place to do what it wants to do in coming weeks.

But here are a few individual-oriented elements that could really come to the forefront, starting Friday-Sunday in Detroit.

They say that guards win in March, and they say that because come single-elimination play, every possession can matter, and a player who can steal an otherwise-empty possession every now and then might be the difference between going forward and going home.