The assists record is done. Purdue won by 33 points in their first round matchup. They\u2019ve apparently flipped the switch. This is the Purdue team we wanted. This is the Purdue team we believed in. This is the Purdue team that was promised. Now, unfortunately for them, they\u2019ve got to prove it game after game. There\u2019s no two ways about it, this team needs to keep winning to make this season a success. After dismantling #15 seed Queens Purdue will now take on #7 seed Miami who took down hometown favorite Missouri in the first round. Miami will have two players familiar to Purdue in Malik Reneau and Tre Donaldson. Former Big Ten foes from IU and Michigan respectively. Well, now it\u2019s time to take them down one more time.<\/p>\n
Who: #2 Purdue vs. #7 Miami<\/p>\n
When: Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 12:10 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Where: St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center – Capacity – 18,096<\/p>\n
Purdue Radio: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)<\/p>\n
So come and join your fellow Boilermaker fans in our fan discussion (formerly known as the open thread) as we talk about Purdue versus the Miami Hurricanes in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner of this game advances to the Sweet 16 in San Jose and will take on Camden Heide and the Texas Longhorns. It\u2019s win or go home time so there\u2019s only one thing to do. Let\u2019s win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The assists record is done. Purdue won by 33 points in their first round matchup. They\u2019ve apparently flipped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,92740],"class_list":["post-201621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-purdue-mens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}