By Danielle Daniels

1 21 2025

GAME NOTES

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GAMEDAY INFORMATION — GAME 20
[11] Purdue (15-4, 7-1) vs. Ohio State (10-8, 2-5)
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
7:30 p.m. ET | West Lafayette, Ind.
Mackey Arena (14,876)
TELEVISION / STREAM: Peacock (Noah Eagle, Robbie Hummel)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)

THE NOTES TO KNOW
• Fresh off the sweep of the Pacific Northwest schools, the No. 11-ranked Purdue men’s basketball team returns home to begin a challenging three-game homestand, beginning Tuesday with a visit from Ohio State. After having just three home games in the last 43 days, the Boilermakers will now host Ohio State, Michigan and Indiana in the next 11 days before traveling to Iowa on Feb. 4.
• Tuesday’s game marks the 700th career coaching game for head coach Matt Painter (30 at Southern Illinois; 669 at Purdue). He owns a 487-212 record in his 21st season as a head coach, including 462-207 in 20 seasons at Purdue.
• With Purdue’s No. 11 ranking in the AP Top 25 poll released yesterday, the Boilermakers have been ranked in the Top 25 in 50 straight polls. Purdue has been ranked in 72 of the last 74 top-25 polls, missing out on the first two polls of the 2022-23 season — a year the Boilers went 29-6. During the last 50 weeks, Purdue has been ranked in the top five in 37 of the 50 polls.
• Since the start of the 2022-23 season, Purdue owns a 22-2 record in the month of January, having won 12 straight games. The 12-game winning streak in the month is the third longest nationally (Saint Mary’s – 26; McNeese State – 13).
• In the last four years, Purdue has defeated teams ranked No. 1 (Arizona), No. 2 (Alabama), No. 4 (Marquette), No. 5 (Villanova), No. 6 (Wisconsin, Tennessee, Gonzaga), No. 7 (Tennessee), No. 8 (Duke), No. 9 (Illinois), No. 12 (Illinois), No. 13 (Oregon, Illinois), No. 16 (Ohio State), No. 17 (Illinois), No. 18 (North Carolina, Gonzaga) and No, 20 (Utah State). Only three of the 18 wins listed above have come in Mackey Arena.
• Since the turn of the calendar to January, Purdue ranks No. 2 nationally in efficiency behind Houston via BartTorvik.com. The Boilermakers are 11th in offensive efficiency and ninth in defensive efficiency in that span. Through December 31, Purdue ranked 29th overall in efficiency while placing 15th in offensive efficiency and 77th in defensive efficiency.
• Since the 2015-16 season (10 years), Purdue owns a 132-49 (.729) record in Big Ten regular-season play. The 72.9 winning percentage is the best by a Big Ten program over a 10-season span since Indiana went 132-48 (.733) from 1975 to 1984.
• During Purdue’s seven-game winning streak, the Boilermakers have just 63 turnovers (9.0), resulting in only 59 points for opponents. Over the last seven games, Purdue has 126 assists against 63 turnovers (2.00), while forcing 101 turnovers in that span, a margin of plus-5.43 turnovers per game. Purdue averaged 12.3 turnovers per game in the first 12 games of the season, resulting in 170 points (14.2 per game).
• Purdue’s seven-game winning streak is tied for the 10th longest nationally. The seven-game conference winning streak is tied for seventh nationally. Purdue’s four straight road wins are tied for the eighth-longest streak nationally. Purdue’s 26-game home streak is third nationally.
• Purdue is now 107-23 since the start of the 2021-22 season, recording the second-most wins in the country (Houston – 111) during that span. The senior class of Caleb Furst (only senior) needs just three more victories to tie the school record for most wins in a four-year career.
• Braden Smith (5th) and Trey Kaufman-Renn (7th) are the only teammates nationally to rank in the top 10 for the KenPom National Player of the Year race. Since the 2016-17 season, Purdue has had eight players ranked in the KenPom top 10 (including this year).
• Braden Smith is the only player in America with 275 points, 150 assists and 75 rebounds. Smith is on pace to become the first player since Loyola Marymount’s Terrell Lowery (1990-91) to average 15.0 points, 9.0 assists, 4.0 rebounds and shoot over 40.0 percent from 3-point range.
• Braden Smith leads the Big Ten in both assists (8.9) and steals per game (2.4). Mike Conley Jr. (OSU; 2007) is the only Big Ten player to do that.
• Trey Kaufman-Renn is one of two players nationally to average 17.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and shoot at least 58 percent from the field. In Big Ten history, only Chris Webber, Evan Eschmeyer, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Brad Miller have done that.

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