In addition, Eddy ranks 3rd all-time in Big Ten wins among Purdue coaches with 92.

North Carolina's Charlotte Smith was expected to be an important key to the game, and the Purdue coach, Lin Dunn, tried to prepare the team to handle Smith.

Brandon took what he learned with Meyer and gave back, as Purdue coaches visited Bowling Green last spring and were adding the option to spice up their offense.

Pace outweighed Colvin by nearly 70 pounds, but the Purdue coaches soon found that speed, in most cases, could compensate for size.

"He must think the Big Ten is pretty easy in his first season in the league," said Gene Keady, the Purdue coach.

But while close to her family, which numbers nearly 80 people, Phillips averaged 4.1 points and 2.1 rebounds under Carolyn Peck, the former Purdue coach.

The Boilermakers (4-1, 1-0 Big Ten) have won four straight over all and seven straight conference openers under Joe Tiller, who became just the second Purdue coach to win 50 games.

Then their coach, Carolyn Peck, left to coach in the W.N.B.A. Curry came in, the third new Purdue coach in four years.

At Kansas State, from which he was graduated in 1960, Guthridge was a roommate of Gene Keady, now the Purdue coach.

Which may have made Gene Keady, the Purdue coach and a member of the Kansas State class of '58, its only unhappy alumnus in the nation.