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Weekly Word: Endless possibilities, Matt Painter's influence and more

The Weekly Word is GoldandBlack.com's weekly, obviously, column covering Purdue football, basketball and recruiting, as well as college sports issues, the true meaning of life, or whatever other topics might come to mind in a given week.

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Purdue opens the NCAA Tournament as a No. 4 seed after a surprisingly successful season. (Chad Krockover)

REASON TO BELIEVE

The last time Purdue stood on an NCAA Tournament floor, every emotion imaginable was unleashed, from the elation of seemingly having a Final Four berth locked up and the visceral impact of playing a game of such consequence in front of such an energized and partisan crowd in Louisville, to the pain of almost unfathomable defeat and the aftermath of regret of coming that close.

In more ways than one, that game the Boilermakers dropped in overtime to Virginia, it proved one thing over a variety of contexts: Anything is possible.

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