Purdue Basketball Preseason Primer

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue men's basketball team officially starts its 2023-24 campaign on Tuesday, Sept. 26, with its first-of-30 allowed preseason practices.
 
Some things to know about Purdue Basketball as it enters its 126th season.
 
DATES TO KNOW

• Sept. 26 – First official practice
• Oct. 10 – Big Ten Media Day (Minneapolis / Target Center)
• Oct. 17 – Single-game tickets on sale, beginning with higher levels of John Purdue Club
• Oct. 20 – Single-game tickets on sale, to the general public
• Oct. 21 – Fan Day (Mackey Arena; details coming soon)
• Oct. 28 – Charity exhibition game vs. Arkansas (Bud Walton Arena; Fayetteville, Arkansas)
• Nov. 1 – Exhibition game vs. Grace College (Mackey Arena)
• Nov. 6 – Season opener vs. Samford (Mackey Arena)

 
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THE NOTES TO KNOW

• In 2023-24, Purdue will return 169 of a possible 175 starts from the 2022-23 season. The 96.6 returning start percentage is the highest of the Painter era.
• In three previous years (2009, 2010, 2022) that Purdue returned at least 90.0 percent of its starts, the Boilermakers went 85-22 (.794).
• Purdue is one of two schools to rank in the KenPom Top 25 in each of the last seven years. It has finished in the top 10 four times (2016, 2018, 2019, 2023).
• Since the 2016-17 season, Purdue owns the third-most wins against teams ranked in the KenPom Top 100. The 78 wins against the top-50 in that span are second nationally.
• Purdue boasts the fifth-best conference record among all power-conference teams since the start of the 2016-17 season.
• The Boilermakers' 96 conference wins over the last seven seasons are third nationally behind Virginia (99) and Kansas (97).
• Purdue's 58 wins (58-14) since the start of the 2021-22 season are the sixth-most nationally. Iowa (45-24) and Wisconsin (45-23) are second in the Big Ten with 45 wins each.
• Purdue's 58 total wins in that span are the most in school history.
• The school record for most wins in a three-year span is during the 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons (83).
• Purdue has won 24 straight non-conference, regular-season games, the longest streak in the country. The streak is over two full calendar years, last losing on Dec. 8, 2020, vs. Miami, Fla.
• Over the last seven years, Purdue (96-39) owns the Big Ten's best record by a whopping nine games over Michigan State (87-48).
• Since the start of the 2015-16 season, Purdue's 201 victories rank seventh among all Division I teams (vs. other Division I teams).
• With Zach Edey garnering consensus first-team All-America honors last season, Purdue has now had an All-American in five of the last seven seasons (2017 - Caleb Swanigan; 2018 - Carsen Edwards; 2019 - Carsen Edwards; 2022 - Jaden Ivey; 2023 - Zach Edey).
• In 2023, Purdue won the Big Ten Championship for the 25th time (13th outright title) and third time in the last seven years (2017, 2019, 2023).
• Purdue became the first team since Wisconsin in 2015 to win the outright Big Ten regular-season title and the Big Ten Tournament title in the same season.
• Purdue became the first team in Big Ten history to win the regular-season title by at least three games and win the Big Ten Tournament in the same season.
• Matt Painter is climbing all the charts in Big Ten play, moving up the list in overall wins and Big Ten regular-season wins. He ranks fifth on the all-time Big Ten wins list and seventh on the Big Ten regular-season wins list.
• Purdue has finished in the top four of the Big Ten standings in 12 of the last 16 seasons under Matt Painter. It has finished top three in seven of the last nine seasons (including last season), with four first- or second-place finishes.
• Since the start of the 2015-16 season (8 full seasons), Purdue is 115-13, the sixth-best home record in all of college basketball.
• Zach Edey needs 467 points, 353 rebounds and 52 blocks to become the third player in college basketball history (David Robinson, Patrick Ewing) with 2,000 points, 1,200 rebounds and 200 blocks and to shoot at least 60.0 percent from the field.