Washburn JeffJeff Washburn, a Lafayette native and 1976 Purdue graduate, covered Indiana high school basketball for the Lafayette Journal & Courier for more than twenty years, reporting on every Indiana state finals from 1976 through 1994. He is nowin his nineteenth season covering the Purdue sports beat for AP and the FW Journal Gazette. Washburn was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011. Read More Read Less