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

Coming into the season with a Top 10 ranking

Andre Miller

The "Flyin' Illini" moniker probably stuck because the team ended Illinois' 37-year Final Four drought

A large part of that was due to the return of sophmore sensation Allen Iverson

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.