Purdue basketball has one more scheduled win against Morehead State on Friday before it plays a gauntlet that will likely including playing 8 top-50 opponents in 9 games.

Xavier comes to Mackey Arena to kick off Purdue's grueling non-conference that will include the Maui Invitational and a 'neutral' court game against Arizona in Indianapolis.

But first Purdue will take on a 22 win Morehead State team that is 1-1 on the season after losing its schedule opener to Alabama 105-73 and then beating Shawnee St. 96-40.

Lot of talk in college basketball has been based around the early slate of games. Little schools get money to fill up big name school's early games, but with the recent upset of Michigan State, all the Big Ten will be put on notice that any team can win on any night.

A Purdue team that's just a game removed from losing to a #16 seed probably doesn't need that reminding.

Matt Painter was complimentary of Morehead State and the program they've run.

"They run good stuff," Painter said on Thursday. "Some people are just simple and like ball screen motion and there's nothing wrong with that. But they do a lot of good stuff out of ball screens. They also run a lot of quick hitters. It'll be a good adjustment for us just because Samford was different in how they changed up everything. These guys are more traditional."

While traditional will test Purdue on defense, it again looks like a game where Purdue's size should make this a lopsided score by the end. Morehead St. has one player with plus size in Dieonte Miles who is seven foot and 240 pounds but also failed to make a big impact on the floor for the Eagles in its first two games.

The Eagles guards will challenge Purdue's perimeter. Eagles have five guards that have attempted six or more three-pointers on the season.

For Painter and his staff, tomorrow's game will be about Purdue and trying to find more clarity in who will and who won't get minutes. A proposition that Painter compared to a Batman villain when he spoke to media.

"I feel good about where we are. I've said this a couple times. I think we're gonna have a good player almost ever game, we're gonna look at his minutes and be like needs to play more," Painter said. "Then we'll be like The Riddler asking each other questions: Where and who? Like how do you change? Because everybody deserves to play more outside of about three or four guys. But they set the table those three to four guys. So you have to work around that."

The emergency of redshirt freshman Camden Heide and true freshman Myles Colvin has made Painter's job even more difficult this year. It's not unusual for Painter to have a large rotation at this point. Last year, during this point of the season, Painter was regularly relying on ten players. This year, he played 17 in the first game of the season. While a few of those are walk-ons, he has legitimate faith in every one of his scholarship players.

"I had planned on playing - in a rotation of ten guys right now," Painter went on to say. "I know I always back that up," Painter said with a laugh. "I never stay with that. I get to 9 or 8. All 12 of our scholarship players deserve to play."

Does that picture become clearer in a blow out? Or will Purdue head into Xavier in the same predicament of too many players and not enough minutes?