Iowa has 10 players warming up for today’s game with 20th-ranked Purdue, meaning that Cyrus Tate is sharing conversation on the bench with Jeff Peterson and Anthony Tucker as the Hawkeyes work through a lay-up drill.

Tate is in uniform, but is not expected to play again because of the ankle sprain that has plagued him for more than a month.

Peterson and Tucker are in street clothes and Peterson has his injured wrist protected by a cast — a sign of the times these days for a wounded Iowa basketball team.

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