{"id":44492,"date":"2025-11-08T19:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44492\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T19:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:46:25","slug":"1-purdue-hosts-oakland-to-close-out-homestand-purdue-boilermakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/44492\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 Purdue Hosts Oakland to Close Out Homestand – Purdue Boilermakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE NOTES TO KNOW
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\u2022 Purdue won its 13th straight season opener on Tuesday night. The last 12 wins have come by an average of 32.1 points per game.\u00a0
\u2022 Purdue will play its 12th game all-time at Mackey Arena as the nation’s No. 1-ranked team. The Boilermakers are 10-1 with the lone loss coming to Rutgers on Jan. 2, 2023 (65-64). Purdue’s 10 wins at home when ranked No. 1 have come by an average of 25.9 points, with just two of the 10 games being decided by less than 14 points. Overall, Purdue is 17-6 overall as the nation’s No. 1-ranked team.\u00a0
\u2022 In the win over Evansville, Purdue used runs of 10-0, 11-0 and 17-0 during the contest to break the game open.
\u2022 Fletcher Loyer<\/a>‘s 30 points in a season opener were the most since Carsen Edwards<\/a> scored 30 against Fairfield on Nov. 6, 2018. His seven 3-pointers also tied the most in a season opener, also set by Edwards against Fairfield.
\u2022 In the last two games dating to last season, Braden Smith<\/a> has 26 assists against four turnovers (15 vs. Houston, 11 vs. Evansville).
\u2022 Smith moved into third place on the Big Ten’s career assists list with 769 helpers. Next on the chart is Mateen Cleaves (816 assists).
\u2022 With Fletcher Loyer<\/a> scoring 30 points in the opener, Purdue now has four active players with 30-point games (Smith, Cluff, Kaufman-Renn).
\u2022 After going 13-of-29 (.448) from 3-point range vs. Evansville, Purdue is now shooting 43.4 percent from 3-point range in home games since the start of the 2023-24 season.
\u2022 Purdue has won 33 straight non-conference home games, dating to Nov. 9, 2019 (Texas). It’s the longest streak in school history.
\u2022 Since the start of the 2021-22 season, Purdue’s 117 victories rank third nationally (Houston – 133; Duke – 122).
\u2022 Purdue will play its first game as the No. 1 team in the KenPom ratings since a 78-75 win over Marquette in Maui on Nov. 22, 2023.
\u2022 Purdue’s 14 weeks ranked No. 1 in the AP poll since the 2021-22 season are the most in the country (Auburn – 11; Houston 10; Gonzaga – 9).
\u2022 Purdue had four players (Smith, Loyer, Kaufman-Renn, Cluff) nominated by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame for their position awards. Purdue is one-of-five schools to have at least four players nominated (UConn, Houston – 5; Purdue, Duke, Florida – 4).\u00a0
\u2022 Braden Smith<\/a> has been named as the preseason Big Ten Player of the Year, while Trey Kaufman-Renn<\/a> joined him on the first team.\u00a0
\u2022 Braden Smith<\/a> is already the only player in Big Ten conference history to amass 1,350 points, 750 assists, 500 rebounds and 175 steals in a career. He is one of 14 players in NCAA history to reach those marks.
\u2022 Purdue has had a consensus first- or second-team All-American in seven of the past nine seasons despite never enrolling a top-30 recruiting class or a top-30 prospect at any point during that span.
\u2022 Matt Painter<\/a> ranks fourth on the Big Ten’s list for career wins with 472, trailing only Tom Izzo (738), Bob Knight (662) and Gene Keady (512) in Big Ten history. Painter has 497 career victories and with four more victories, Painter will become the seventh-fastest active coach to reach 500 wins (Few, Calipari, Self, Pitino, Izzo, Bennett).\u00a0
\u2022 Purdue has sold out its ticket allotment for the upcoming season, stretching its sellout streak in Mackey Arena to 106 games by the time the March 7, game against Wisconsin rolls around. Purdue enters the season with 89 straight sellouts dating to Jan. 15, 2019 (Rutgers).
\u2022 Purdue basketball has had two coaches in 46 seasons (Gene Keady, Matt Painter<\/a>), accounting for 984 wins and 11 Big Ten titles.\u00a0
\u2022 Painter is the ninth-longest tenured head coach at one school in the country (Kampe, Izzo, Mark Few – Gonzaga, James Jones – Yale, Randy Bennett – Saint Mary’s, Scott Drew – Baylor, Bill Self – Kansas, Gary Manchel – Mercyhurst).\u00a0
\u2022 Purdue became the first school in Big Ten history to have its players win three straight Player of the Year honors (Zach Edey<\/a> – 2023, 2024; Braden Smith<\/a> – 2025).\u00a0
\u2022 With the win over Evansville, Purdue has now won 32 straight games when holding foes to 59 or fewer points, dating to a 58-54 loss at Miami, Fla., on Dec. 8, 2020. Purdue is 188-7 under Matt Painter<\/a> when holding foes to 59 or fewer points.
\u2022 With the 31-point win over Evansville, Purdue has won 41 games by 30 or more points since the start of the 2015-16 season. The 41 wins are the fifth most nationally in that span (Gonzaga, Houston, Duke, Texas Tech).
\u2022 Smith ranks second in career scoring among players that have been in the Big Ten for their whole careers (1,381 points) behind Ohio State’s Bruce Thornton (1,513 points). Fletcher Loyer<\/a> is third (1,311 points).
\u2022 Braden Smith<\/a> and Fletcher Loyer<\/a> will tie a school record on Friday by making the 112th consecutive start (Bruce Parkinson – 112).\u00a0
\u2022 A Purdue player has led the country in two-point field goals made in each of the last two seasons (2024 – Zach Edey<\/a>; 2025 – Trey Kaufman-Renn<\/a>).\u00a0
\u2022 Dating to last season, Braden Smith<\/a> has dished out 26 assists in the last two games. He had a turnover on Purdue’s first offensive possession on Tuesday night, but went the last 39:49 without a turnover, while dishing out 11 assists in that span.
\u2022 Over his last 33 games (start of last year), Oscar Cluff<\/a> has 23 games of 10 or more rebounds, including against Evansville.
\u2022 In four season openers, Fletcher Loyer<\/a> averaged 20.0 points per game, while shooting 19-of-33 (.576) from 3-point range.
\u2022 Fletcher Loyer<\/a> is 145-of-321 (.452) from 3-point range since the start of his sophomore season. Among active players with 100 or more 3-pointers made, his percentage is second nationally (TCU’s Tyler Lundblade – .472; 108 made 3-ptrs.).
\u2022 Since the start of his sophomore year, Fletcher Loyer<\/a> is shooting 52.7 percent (77-of-146) from 3-point range in Mackey Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE NOTES TO KNOW \u2022 Purdue won its 13th straight season opener on Tuesday night. The last 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25160,143,145,144,24344,25161,25159,25162,25163,13675],"class_list":["post-44492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-boilermakers","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-purdue","tag-purdue-athletics","tag-purdue-university","tag-purdue-university-athletics","tag-purdue-university-boilermakers","tag-purdue-boilermakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}