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OMAHA — It doesn’t matter. It didn’t matter last year when Purdue lost a charity exhibiton game at Arkansas and it doesn’t matter that it fell 93-87 Saturday night at Creighton. After trailing by as many as 13, Purdue was with five in the final minute What matters is that Purdue’s questions and potential weaknesses got exposed by one of the better offensive programs in America. The Blue Jays hurt Purdue’s dribble-containment and defense and exposed the Zach Edey-less Boilermakers at the rim, outscoring Purdue without really stopping it. Purdue did shoot better than 50 percent deep into the gam…

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