Posted 3/11/2010 2:09:00 AM
Every time I watch Purdue’s basketball team play, my mind wanders to Luke Harangody and wonders “What if?”
Plug Harangody, Notre Dame’s senior forward, into Purdue’s lineup and you have a coma-serious Final Four contender, even without Robbie Hummel. Put Hummel back in the lineup with a healthy ACL, and the Boilermakers might be the best team in the country.
Harangody is presumably happy at Notre Dame and the Irish likely will play in the NCAA tournament, so there’s not much to mourn here. But had he gone to Purdue, as he very nearly did after coming out of Andrean High School four years ago … well, the possibilities are enough to tingle the spines of Purdue fans everywhere.
The Boilermakers have been one big man short of national title contention the past two seasons, and Harangody is the man. He fits both their needs and their culture as a ...
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