So guiding a team of Boilermaker alumni over their IU counterparts at the Knox Pro-Am at Ritter High School Thursday night, in front of many Hoosier fans, will have to suffice.

"I got a little bit of closure that way," Teague joked, after scoring a game-high 35 points in the 110-106 win.

There was no Glenn Robinson or Alan Henderson or Bob Knight or Gene Keady in Ritter's gym, but there were moments where the competitive spirits between the two groups were stoked.

Purdue's JaJuan Johnson and Indiana's D.J. White took turns trying to one-up each other on dunks or blocking each other's shots. After Johnson devoured one of White's lay-up attempts, White responded by turning away a Johnson jumper.

Roderick Wilmont, the Indiana alumnus, gave the referees their shares of grief for what he perceived to be missed calls. On the Purdue side, Kenny Lowe was more subtle, but as defiant.

Then there was Bobby Riddell, the popular former Purdue walk-on who helped the Boilermakers down the stretch by drawing a charge - in a Pro-Am game - then making a three at the other end.

"Only a true Boilermaker would do that," Riddell joked afterward after he drew the offensive foul on Wilmont, who wasn't terribly happy about it.

It was highly informal basketball, but in many ways good basketball, a game that saw Purdue take an early lead, lose it and trail by double-digits on several occasions, before rallying back to win, getting important defensive stops in the final minutes of a close game.

"I wanted the guys to have fun," said Brandon Brantley, who coached the Purdue team along with former college teammate Roy Hairston, "but any time it's IU, the guys are going to have fun, but everybody on that bench wanted to walk away with that victory."

Johnson, who will decide in the next few weeks whether to seek an NBA camp opportunity or sign a contract to play overseas, scored 32 points, including an end-to-end dunk in the game's final minutes that served as a critical score. Lowe, who played last season in Finland and is undecided what he'll do now, scored 19.

John Hart, who'd played prior in one of the Pro-Am event's earlier games, scored 12.