GoldandBlack.com Analysis and Wrap Video: Purdue's win over Valpo

This was bound to happen, this sort of scare, because Purdue is so young and so new, and it wasn't going to shoot 50 percent from three-point range all season. This sort of showing should have been expected, and that Purdue came out of it unscathed is the key.

A huge part of Purdue finding a way on Friday was the steady guard play it got from Isaiah Thompson, filling in as the Boilermakers' primary ball-handler with Eric Hunter and Jaden Ivey out.

Between two positions, Thompson logged a career-high 36 minutes and despite spending all those minutes facing a relatively pressure-driven defense, he came out of it turnover-free.