The NCAA Tournament is all about maximizing one's strengths, but also masking one's weaknesses and sidestepping one's vulnerabilities, especially when matchups come along that don't jibe with the way a team is built to play.
As No. 10 Purdue heads to Milwaukee to open NCAA Tournament play on Friday against Yale, here's a look at the four biggest concerns Matt Painter may have.
BALL SECURITY
Purdue's greatest vulnerability is actually hidden in its statistical profile.
The Boilermakers' season turnover percentage of 17.3 percent ranks No. 103 nationally according to KenPom.
That's not great, especially for a program that values that category above most others, but it's not egregiously bad, either.
This part of the story is best told anecdotally, because for Purdue, when it has rained, it has poured.
