Purdue Boilermakers 1968-1969 Retro Shorts Magazine Coming into the season with

Coming into the season with a Top 10 ranking

To say he is "a problem" is an understatement

The Hurricanes won the schools first ever ACC regular season championship with a conference record of 15-3 before losing to North Carolina in the championship of the ACC Tournament

During the season they would climb as high as #3 in the country thanks in large part to a stacked roster which included 4 future NBA players

Purdue Boilermakers 1968-1969 Retro Shorts Magazine Coming into the season withLed by the all time college basketball legend, Rick Mount, the 1968 1969 Purdue Boilermakers won the Big Ten Conference championship by going 13 1. Aided by Billy Keller and Herman Gilliam, Mount and the Boilermakers beat Miami Ohio and Marquette to make the Final Four. After destroying North Carolina, 92 65 in the national semifinals, Purdue came up one victory shy of winning the National Championship, suffering a 92 72 loss at the hands of UCLA.