Braden Smith’s lesson in loss and leadership

This is the fourth season in a row that Purdue enters the NCAA tournament with an all-American of the first team.

Another four seasons was Jaden Ivey’s year at the head of College basketball, in his second year at Purdue, and Matt Painter lost him against the NBA next season.

Zach Edey, a second year in this team, was a unanimous all-American all-American all-American in the following two seasons and received on the way to every big player of the year.

Edey went to the NBA after his senior season.

There is a world in which both players used their Covid year and would play for this year’s Purdue team.

It is no coincidence that Purdue’s last years was the most successful route in the program history. Three years in a row, in which he has acquired his first program No. 1 and then as No. 1 -seed #1.

This year Purdue has another All-American First Team, Braden Smith, a Point Guard who can break the NCAA assists of the NCAA next season.

Smith’s success, proof of players and coaches, and an offensive system that merges seamlessly to Braden Smith’s Pick’s Roll Briliance on Edey’s post game, Smith made it possible to flourish over the years despite the lack of elite size despite the lack of high school -Ffer and in spite of Smiths over the years.

All great players play on their shoulders with a chip, but with Smith it is up to a size of almost as withdrawal as Edey.

But for Smith, this season was more about what he had never experienced before: losing and leading a college team.