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The No. 5 Purdue Boilermakers host the Penn State Nittany Lions Saturday at 2 p.m. ET<\/a>. The Nittany Lions have lost five of their last six games, but nearly upset No. 2 Michigan Tuesday. <\/p>\n The Boilermakers (14-1, 4-0 Big Ten) have won six straight games. Their only loss of the season came against Iowa State, who is 14-0 and ranked No. 3 in the country. <\/p>\n Penn State vs. Purdue will air on Big Ten Network, and streams live on DIRECTV (free trial)<\/a>.<\/p>\n What: Men\u2019s college basketball regular season<\/p>\n Who: Penn State Nittany Lions vs. No. 5 Purdue Boilermakers<\/p>\n When: Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026<\/p>\n Where: Mackey Arena, West Lafayette, Indiana<\/p>\n Time: 2 p.m. ET<\/p>\n TV: Big Ten Network<\/p>\n Live stream: DIRECTV (free trial)<\/a>, fuboTV (free trial)<\/a><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a recent college basketball story via the Associated Press:<\/p>\n WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) \u2014 Braden Smith finished with 23 points and seven assists and made two late free throws to help No. 5 Purdue fend off Washington\u2019s late rally for an 81-73 victory Wednesday night.<\/p>\n Trey Kaufman-Renn added 14 points and 14 rebounds as the Boilermakers won their fifth in a row and matched a school-best start at 14-1 (4-0 Big Ten) for the ninth time in program history.<\/p>\n It came on a night Purdue honored Smith, an Associated Press preseason All-American guard, before the national anthem by presenting the Big Ten\u2019s new career assists leader with a framed poster. Smith broke the record Friday at Wisconsin and pushed his career total to 900 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Yet, it was an odd night for Smith, who went 10 of 15 from the field with only one 3-pointer while committing six turnovers and spending nearly 8 1\/2 consecutive minutes on the bench after drawing his third foul with 4:20 left in the first half.<\/p>\n Hannes Steinbach had 17 points to lead the Huskies (9-6, 1-3). Quimari Peterson had 15 and Zoom Diallo added 14 points. Franck Kepnang had 10 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out with 9:14 to play.<\/p>\n Purdue\u2019s inability to close out the victory allowed Washington to cut a 22-point deficit into single digits several times in the final three minutes.<\/p>\n But it was never really close after Washington\u2019s early turnovers helped fuel Purdue\u2019s 9-0 run to open the game \u2014 the Huskies first at Mackey Arena. Purdue extended the lead to 31-15 midway through the first half and looked like it would pull away after opening the second half with six straight points to make it 51-28.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Washington: Begins a three-game homestand Saturday against Ohio State.<\/p>\n Purdue: Hosts Penn State on Saturday.<\/p>\n Can I bet on the game? <\/p>\n Yes, you can bet<\/a> on the game from your phone in New York State, and we\u2019ve compiled some of the best introductory offers<\/a> to help navigate your first bets from BetMGM<\/a>, FanDuel<\/a>, DraftKings<\/a>, Bet365<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. The No. 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-404591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}