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[QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 4957788, member: 55"]
We are better than them.  But they are very very good and the second best team in the country for a reason.  This is, by far, the best team we've played in a championship game since '99.  We can lose.  My keys:

1.  Clingan staying out of foul trouble.  If you're between Edey and the basket and he shoots over you, he shoots over you.   If he gets position inside you, let him go.  We're not going to shut Edey down -- don't let him take you out of the game by wasting fouls on low percentage attempts to disrupt him.

2.  Hit 3 point shots at your normal rate throughout the game.  For purposes of my heart, don't shoot 25% or less all day long and then get hot in the last five minutes.  Again.

3.  Hope the opponent doesn't have a statistically impossible night shooting threes.  That we were up at the half with 'Bama shooting almost 70% from 3 was remarkable, but if Purdue shoots 70% from 3 for a long while, they are going to build a lead.

I don't need to make it more complicated than that.  Clingan plays 28 minutes or more and I think the line is justified.
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