Sometimes sports are like a Wes Craven-like remake of a family winning a lottery, only to have consistent misfortune plague the lives of everybody involved.

And although Matt Painter is not a coach wielding a ghostly mask or a finely-sharpened blade, he is the brains behind the basketball operation taking place at Purdue. Ranked in the top five in the nation, the Boilermakers looked like a sure-shot Final Four team.

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