What viewers and sports fans don’t get to see behind the scenes in putting our stories together is priceless.

Today, a group of us were ready to enter the Purdue locker room to get interviews for the game with Washington, but the security guards said the tournament chairman said “No media allowed.” We were up against our five and six o’clock deadlines, so we pushed. Ten minutes later, despite Purdue officials and coaches saying it was fine to let us in, still no access. It set some of us off, the guard saying on his walkie-talkie that the media were trying to force their way into the locker room!

We eventually got in, and coach Matt Painter laughed and said after hearing the whole episode that he didn’t want to mess with us…an angry mob!