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The NCAA's back-to-back spring evaluation weekends to conclude April have run their course, and coming out of them, Purdue moves into the summer mobilized to fill at least four scholarships for the 2018 class.

Below are some notes, thoughts and hot takes on where things stand for the Boilermaker program in recruiting this spring and summer, specific to the 2018 and 2019 classes.

The days of open-and-shut-case recruiting for Purdue have come and gone — and that's not necessarily a bad thing — and for the second straight year, it may go into the fall with official visits telling the tale.

It's a stark contrast to the those 2010, 2012 and 2013 classes, where just about everybody committed as underclassmen. It just kind of worked out that way. Those were the classes, by the way, that made up much of the teams that struggled for two seasons prior to Purdue's past three seasons. Matt Painter will admit his focus on in-state recruiting first, second and third — we're overstating that — limited his pool and contributed to rosters with severe limitations, for one thing.

In recent years, you've seen Purdue's reach expand in recruiting. That is often going to lend itself to more drawn out recruitments.