College basketball gets a treat in West Lafayette at noon when #1 Purdue takes on fellow undefeated and #10 team in the country, Iowa State. It’s a showdown of the unbeaten, of two of the most consistent programs in the last fives years. It’s the nation’s #1 offense against the #1 defense in the country […]
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For the third traight season Purdue volleyball is moving on to the Sweet 16. On Thursday night the Boilermakers swept Wright State 25-13, 25-21, 25-19 in Holloway Gym to move on to round 2 tonight. The quick turnaround meant a match with Baylor with a chance to move on to the Sweet 16. This time […]
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2025-2026 Season Record: 7-0 AP Rank: 10 Previous 3 Games 11/25: W – 78-60 vs Creighton @ Players Era Championship – Las Vegas 11/25: W – 95 – 64 vs Syracuse @ Players Era Championship – Las Vegas 11/26: W – 132 – 68 vs Alcorn State @ Home Iowa State Personnel Starters Bench Key Analytics (Per KenPom.com – […]
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New York bursts out, an hour or so away from Piscataway, brightly lit and crowded, filled up to the clouds with metal buildings and so many people below that just walking across the street can be daunting. There’s a forced metaphor there, a day away from another ho hum Purdue win in December. Basketball is […]
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We made it to the end of another week folks! That’s right it’s Friday. That means that the results of this week’s survey are in and ready for your review and debate. This week I again went with the one football question and one basketball question. I wanted to gauge if everyone was as angry […]
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Ryan and I are back together on this episode of the podcast and we start out talking all about Purdue football. Since Ryan wasn’t able to join me on the last episode I wanted to give him a chance to discuss what he thinks should change with this Purdue football program. Obviously they’ve struggled these […]
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At one point, I treated National Signing Day as a personal holiday. I’d set up in front of the TV with a 45-pound MacBook and a selection of snacks. My wife would leave for work and come home and find me in the same place she left me. It was a truly glorious day. It’s […]
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Purdue used a strong middle twenty minutes of their game against a feisty but overwhelmed Rutgers squad to grab an important road B1G win. With the trio of TKR, Smith, and Loyer leading the way, Purdue shot 38.5% (10/26) from behind the arc although they went just 3/12 in the second half. Purdue continued their […]
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One down, 19 to go. The expectation of a 27th Big Ten Men’s Basketball Championship has come naturally this season. Purdue has higher goals, sure, but winning yet another Big Ten championship (a sixth under Matt Painter) is still really nice. We can never take those for granted, and a third in four seasons is […]
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During a season where all eyes are on Braden Smith’s charge towards the all-time assist record, it was his shot making that got going for Purdue early as Smith and the Boilermakers started off Big Ten Conference play by beating the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, 81-65. Smith had three first half three-pointers, including two early ones, […]
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Big Ten play is finally here people. Of course, it’s December so it’s the strange two early conference games followed by a break in conference play. This is a spot in the calendar that Purdue has historically not done very well in. In fact, Purdue is just 2-6 in Big Ten road openers since these […]
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Purdue fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. As promised yesterday, I’ve got your survey for the week. I’m again doing one football question […]
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The first NET rankings of the season are our and, as expected, Purdue is among the nation’s elite teams. The hot stretch for Michigan in Las Vegas has the Wolverines at No. 1, but Purdue is currently third with a chance to take over the top spot in the next few weeks. Saturday’s game alone […]
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It has not been a kind trip, flying east from West Lafayette, Indiana to Piscataway, New Jersey, for the Purdue Boilermakers when carrying a #1 ranking next to its name. It wasn’t too long ago that Purdue carried the #1 for the first time in program history to play Rutgers in the same Jersey Mikes […]
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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 […]
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In an era of coaches, players and personnel always looking to what is “next”, Devin Mockobee was a unicorn. Five years at one university in the climate of what college football currently is, just is no longer the norm. So, Thank you, Devin Mockobee, for being you, for being a Boilermaker. In his five years, […]
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It was a very light week for Purdue basketball last week. While most of the top teams in the country were playing in showcase events, Purdue played just once in a Friday afternoon blowout of lowly Eastern Illinois. That is the beauty of having your showcase event so early. That meant Purdue stays No. 1 […]
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I’m always loathe to call for someone to lose their job. No matter what you think of someone’s job performance, they are a human being. They’ve got loved ones, they’ve got friends, they’ve got family. But the sad reality is that sometimes someone has to lose their job. In the case of Purdue football, who […]
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Purdue volleyball stumbled slightly down the stretch, losing matches to Oregon, Wisconsin, and Minnesota to finish 15-5 in conference play, but after Saturday’s win over Indiana in Mackey Arena the program knows it will be home for at least two more matches in the NCAA Tournament. After spening most of the season in the top […]
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Just three years ago Purdue football went to Bloomington and defeated Indiana 30-16 to clinch the Big Ten West and earn an appearance in the Big Ten Championship game. That capped a two year stretch where the Boilermakers were 17-8 in the previous 25 games. A pair of those losses in 2022 to Penn State […]
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Going into this game against the undefeated Hoosiers it was clear that Purdue needed a miracle to win. What that miracle would be though I couldn’t say. I spoke with a couple other media members as the game was preparing to kickoff and the idea of “strange things” happening in Bucket games was brought up. […]
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Whelp folks, this is it, the final football game of the season. There have been highs, and plenty of lows, this season. None of us expected Purdue to clean up this season and somehow find their way to the CFP but I’m not sure that we expected a two win season. It’s been a trudge. […]
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The Purdue Boilermakers dominated following a bit of a sluggish start to a 109-62 dismantling of the the Panthers from Eastern Illinois. In front of another sold out crowd inside Mackey Arena, the Boilers ran another near perfect example of offensive efficiency. Let’s jump into this victory in more detail by going ‘By the Numbers.’ […]
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Purdue’s Rebounding continues to shine At one point in the first half, Purdue had 9 turnovers and was still winning the possession battle. That’s because it had an 18-3 edge on the glass. That advantage was stretched even further when Oscar Cluff gobbled up two more offensive rebounds on back to back possessions to start […]
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Purdue fans poured into Mackey Arena on Friday morning for a noon tipoff against an overmatched Eastern Illinois Panthers squad. This wasn’t a team that was going to seriously challenge Purdue, but it was a good game to have following the Bahamas MTE and prior to the upcoming start of Big Ten season against Rutgers […]
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