{"id":169064,"date":"2026-03-20T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169064\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:27:36","slug":"purdue-boilermakers-take-on-queens-royals-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169064\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Boilermakers take on Queens Royals in first round of NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queens Royals (21-13, 16-5 ASUN) vs. Purdue Boilermakers<\/a> (27-8, 17-7 Big Ten<\/a>)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Friday, 7:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Boilermakers -25.5; over\/under is 162.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Purdue takes on Queens in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers’ record in Big Ten play is 17-7, and their record is 10-1 against non-conference opponents. Purdue is the top team in the Big Ten with 19.9 assists per game led by Braden Smith<\/a> averaging 9.0.<\/p>\n

The Royals’ record in ASUN action is 16-5. Queens averages 84.9 points and has outscored opponents by 2.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Purdue’s average of 9.3 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.8 more made shots on average than the 8.5 per game Queens gives up. Queens averages 10.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 more made shots on average than the 8.7 per game Purdue allows.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Smith is averaging 14 points, nine assists and 1.8 steals for the Boilermakers. Trey Kaufman-Renn<\/a> is averaging 16.5 points and 7.4 rebounds while shooting 60.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nasir Mann<\/a> is averaging 13.4 points and 5.8 rebounds for the Royals. Jordan Watford<\/a> is averaging 14.4 points and 3.9 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Boilermakers: 6-4, averaging 79.2 points, 28.7 rebounds, 20.1 assists, 5.0 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Royals: 8-2, averaging 87.5 points, 30.7 rebounds, 15.8 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.2 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Royals (21-13, 16-5 ASUN) vs. Purdue Boilermakers (27-8, 17-7 Big Ten) St. Louis; Friday, 7:35 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35079,68913,3361,54398,9,24,63,59782,122,124,123,68912],"class_list":["post-169064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-big-ten","tag-braden-smith","tag-college-basketball","tag-event_preview","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-trey-kaufman-renn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}