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Purdue Basketball: #8 Alabama – Basic Information
Alabama Crimson Tide Basketball Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Type of School: Public Mascot: Big Al (The Elephant) 2024-’25 Season: 28-9 (13-5 in SEC play) 2024 – ‘25 NCAA Tournament: #2 Seed – Lost to Duke in Regional Final Head Coach – Nate Oats Seasons at Alabama: 7 Alabama Record: 147-63 Career Record: 243-106 Regular Season Conference Championships: 4 (Buffalo 2, Alabama 2) Conference Tournament Championships: 5 […]
Xs and Ohs! Ohio State Domination
You may have heard that the website formerly known as Twitter has been purchased and is now X, a simply horrendous name in my opinion but then again I am not a billionaire so take my suggestions with a grain of salt. You may also know that we have historically shared our favorite tweets from […]
Poll Dancin’: Purdue Drops to No. 2 This Week
For the first time ever Purdue men’s basketball started it season at No.1 in the AP Poll. That lasted a week. Did I miss something? Did Purdue lose? Nope. Apparently being tied at halftime at home against a decent low major like Oakland is enough to be punished by the Associated Press as they hold […]
Boiler Alert – Oakland and OSU
Things went just about as expected over the weekend with Purdue men’s basketball taking down Oakland and Purdue football losing to the visiting Ohio State Buckeyes. It’s what we expected, but did it happen how we expected? Well, on the football side of things it was about as predicted. On the basketball side? Not at […]
Purdue Volleyball Sits Second in the B1G
With three weeks left in the regular season Purdue Volleyball is in the running for its first Big Ten championship in 40 years. The Boilermaker program has wont he league twice: in 1982 and 1985. Under Dave Shondell they have also been incredibly competitive in the Big Ten. Unfortunately, the rough and tumble nature of […]
Ohio State 34 – Purdue 10: Outmatched
Let’s not kid ourselves. We’re all adults here. Hell, you saw the numbers in this morning’s survey results, just 9% of Purdue fans thought that Purdue would pull off the upset and quite frankly I thought that number was ridiculously high. The only way Purdue was going to win this game was with an absolutely […]
Purdue’s season against itself
Fletcher Loyer knows it. Braden Smith knows it. Purdue wasn’t good enough tonight, despite the win, and the second half shooting, tonight’s performance wasn’t the bar they’ve set for themselves. After all, they’ve been doing this exact thing for 112 straight games. That is, starting games for Matt Painter and the Purdue Boilermakers. That number, […]
How to Watch Purdue (2-7, 0-6) vs. #1 Ohio State (8-0, 5-0) & Open Thread
I know this is a football post, but I think a note about basketball is apt here. Last night, #1 Purdue took on an unranked Oakland team and was given one hell of a fight. Purdue didn’t play particularly well, they are missing an All-American after all, and Oakland was ready and focused with a […]
Hammer and Rails Reader Survey Results – Predicting Purdue Basketball
The results of the weekly survey in and before we head to today’s football game against Ohio State it’s going to be time to go on the record with your predictions for the game. Be prepared for single digits! Also, Purdue basketball is now 2-0 without the aid of All-American TKR who has been sidelined […]
By the Numbers: Purdue 87 Oakland 77
The Boilers got an ugly home victory over Oakland 87-77 to move to 2-0 on the season on the back of Braden Smith. The pre-season favorite for player of the year went for 20 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists in a performance that supports that assumption. The shot selection, rebounding, and defense at times looked […]
Purdue 87 – Oakland 77 – Second Half Powers Purdue to Double Digit Victory
Purdue played just about the ugliest first half you could imagine in this one yet somehow they went into the locker room tied 35-35. Just how bad did Purdue play in that first half? Well, let’s just take a look at some numbers shall we? As they say, the numbers don’t lie. Of course, Oakland […]
How to Watch #1 Purdue (1-0) vs. Oakland (0-1) & Open Thread
Coming off their 31 point victory over Evansville, Purdue returns to Mackey Arena for a game against Oakland. This will be another tuneup game, no offense Oakland I love bears!, before next week’s big matchup on Thursday against Alabama. As of this writing there has been no official word on if TKR will be back […]
Purdue Football: What to Watch for Against Ohio State
The Purdue Boilermakers take on the top ranked Ohio State Buckeyes in Ross Ade stadium tomorrow afternoon in what is almost certain to be a blood bath. At the same time, I said that last week and Barry Odom’s crew gave the Wolverines all they could handle in Ann Arbor. This team may not be […]
Purdue (2-7, 0-6) vs. #1 Ohio State (8-0, 5-0) Staff Predictions
Well it’s Friday afternoon so it’s time to lay it all out there. Can Purdue pull off the upset of the college football season and take down Ohio State? An Ohio State team that is currently #1 in the country mind you. Well, I asked the staff their thoughts. Ledman (8-1): If you listened to […]
Interview With the Enemy – Ohio State & Land Grant Holy Land
Once again this week I interview a fellow SB Nation blogger over to our side of the internet to talk about an upcoming matchup. This time it’s Matt Tamanini from Land Grant Holy Land who covers, you guessed it, the Ohio State Buckeyes. He is the co-managing editor over there and was kind enough to […]
Game Preview – Oakland at Purdue
After picking up the season opening win against Evanvsille, 82-51, Purdue’s season continues to its second mid-major of the season, a match-up with Oakland on Friday night. Oakland’s season started off against another Big Ten team, Michigan, who it lost big to, 121-78 on Monday. For Purdue, not even should wins game come without some […]
Purdue Basketball: Braden Smith – Point God
In a cruel twist of fate, my time was otherwise spoken for during Evansville game. I took furtive glances at the game cast whenever the opportunity arose and watched as Fletcher Loyer’s point totaled steadily ticked towards 30, while Braden Smith’s stagnated at six. I was thrilled with Fletcher’s shooting clinic, but based on the […]
Purdue Football a Nearly 30 Point Home Dog Against Ohio State
This is one of those stories where the headline really tells a lot of the tale. It’s no surprise that Purdue is going to be an underdog heading into this Saturday’s game against Ohio State. We all knew that was going to happen. What we didn’t know was how much of an underdog. Well, now […]
Boiler Alert: Purdue Basketball is 1-0
Ryan is off on his honeymoon so you’re all stuck with me for this one. So you know what that means? That means I’m going to talk about Coke and Coke Zero before we get into the Purdue of it all. I’m like Jon Rothstein, some people have hobbies, I have Coke Zero. Or something […]
Purdue Basketball Season Predictions: Staff Roundtable
Basketball season is officially underway after game one was completed last night. Prior to that though I asked the staff a series of questions and wanted their answers. These were questions about which of the events expected for Purdue basketball would actually happen. I wanted everyone on the record before the season got too deep. […]
By the Numbers: Purdue 82 Evansville 51
The Purdue Boilermakers rolled to an 82-51 victory in the first official game of the 2025-2026 season. Without Trey Kaufman-Renn, who missed the game due to what is being called as a minor hip injury, Purdue went with freshman Jack Benter in the starting lineup. The overwhelmed Purple Aces kept close with the #1 team […]
Purdue 82, Evansville 51: Postgame Video
The 2025-26 season is underway and the debut was a successful one for the No. 1 ranked Purdue Boilermakers. Fletcher Loyer had a career high 30 points, Jacke Benter had 11 points, 6 rebounds, and 2 assists in his first collegeate game, and Braden Smith started the year with 11 assists as Purdue beat Evansville […]
Quick hitters – Offense moves away from Smith as Loyer shines
Offense moves away from Smith When the game gets tough, when Purdue really needs a basket, Braden Smith will be there, dribbling up above the key, waiting for a big man to set a screen and send the nation’s best pick and roll attack into motion. But for the start of this game, and throughout, […]
Purdue 82 – Evansville 51 – Purdue Torches the Nets Against the Aces
Purdue started this game with bad news as it was announced that Trey Kaufman-Renn was out with a hip/back issue. It’s never fun to have an All-American miss a game. But hey, no matter. Purdue had Jack Benter step into the starting lineup and he handled it all with no problem. If you’re going to […]
Purdue Basketball: Game 1 – Let’s Get This Party Started!
Welcome to the 2025-’26 Purdue basketball season! It’s been a long eight months of anticipation since the Boilermakers exited the floor at Lucas Oil after coming up just short against the top-seeded Houston Cougars in a game that very easily could have broken their way. During their time out of the spotlight, Matt Painter has […]
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