Purdue basketball star Trey Kaufman-Renn said that his 13-year-old brother was subjected to racist language Friday night by the home crowd at Illinois. The profanity allegedly came from the “Orange Krush” student section that is synonymous with providing one of the Big Ten’s biggest home-court advantages.

The Boilermakers careened from their championship trajectory with four consecutive losses, culminating in an uncharacteristic and at times embarrassing second half at Indiana. As a fourth-year player and linchpin of the starting lineup, Kaufman-Renn took the initiative to gather the team and talk through the problems.