Purdue swept the Big Ten’s titles last season, winning the regular-season championship and then capturing the B1G Tournament crown. It was the first time since the 2014-15 season that one team won both the outright regular-season and conference tournament titles. Now, the Boilermakers are looking to do it again.

In a roundtable piece predicting the winner of every Division I conference tournament on Monday, ESPN’s Jeff Borzello, John Gasaway, Joe Lunardi, and Myron Medcalf all picked Purdue to do exactly that. Medcalf wrote the following as justification for the pick:

Boilermakers center Zach Edey is not only the undeniable favorite in the Wooden Award race again, he’s also a better player — so much so that NBA prognosticators believe he can be a lottery pick in the draft this summer. But this season’s Boilermakers are also more than Edey. They’re one of the top 3-point shooting squads in America (40.5%), unlike last season’s group that won the Big Ten tournament and earned a top seed in the NCAA tournament.

Edey powered No. 2 Purdue to a six-point win over Michigan State on Saturday night, scoring 32 points and grabbing 11 rebounds to clinch at least a share of the Big Ten’s regular-season championship.

With a win in either of their final two games, the Boilermakers (26-3, 15-3 Big Ten) can claim their second straight outright regular-season crown. Doing so would make them the first team to repeat as regular-season B1G champs since Ohio State in 2006 and 2007.

The only remaining regular-season threat to an outright title is Illinois, whom the Boilermakers will face in Champaign on Tuesday (7 p.m. ET, Peacock).

The Boilermakers have looked exactly as expected this season. They’ve been ranked as the No. 1 team in the country five different times, including four consecutive weeks from Dec. 18 through Jan. 8. They have wins against then-No. 11 Gonzaga, then-No. 7 Tennessee, then-No. 4 Marquette, then-No. 1 Arizona, then-No. 9 Illinois, and then-No. 6 Wisconsin.

In fact, Purdue hasn’t lost a ranked-on-ranked matchup yet this year. It is the third-best team in all of college basketball, according to KenPom, and it has played a top-10 schedule.

This is a group that feels ready for postseason play.

Each of Purdue’s three losses has come away from home, however. In the first two — against Northwestern in overtime and then against Nebraska — the 3-point line was the Boilermakers’ undoing. The Wildcats and Huskers shot 24-of-43 (55.8%) from beyond the arc, each blowing well past Purdue’s season average of 7.6 3s allowed at a 32.6% clip.

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