GAMEDAY INFORMATION -- GAME 04 (MAUI INVITATIONAL)
[2] Purdue (3-0) vs. [11] Gonzaga (2-0)
5 p.m. ET | Honolulu, Hawai'i
Stan Sherriff Center | 10,300
TELEVISION: ESPN2 (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Angel Gray)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• Part of perhaps the best tournament field ever assembled, the No. 2-ranked Purdue men's basketball team heads to paradise looking for its third consecutive tournament title when it faces No. 11-ranked Gonzaga in Monday's opening round of the Allstate Maui Invitational.
• Purdue (#2) and Gonzaga (#11) are two of six teams in the Maui field ranked in this week's AP Top 25 poll. Four of the teams are ranked in the nation's top seven, as Purdue and Gonzaga are joined by Kansas (#1), Marquette (#4), Tennessee (#7), UCLA (#25), Syracuse and Chaminade.
• Monday's game features KenPom's top two offenses in the country in offensive efficiency (Purdue - 119.5; Gonzaga - 119.2).
• Starting with the win over Xavier on Monday night, Purdue is now in the midst of a nine-game stretch that could POTENTIALLY have eight of the nine teams ranked in the KenPom top-60 and all of them as NCAA tournament teams from a year ago. Xavier (39), Gonzaga (7), possibly Tennessee (8), possibly Kansas (3) OR Marquette (9) OR UCLA (30), Texas Southern (227 - Last year's SWAC Champion), Northwestern (59), Iowa (39), Alabama (5) and Arizona (6). Of teams currently in the KenPom top nine, Purdue could play five of them.
• Purdue has won two straight Thanksgiving week tournaments, defeating No. 18 North Carolina and No. 5 Villanova in the 2021 Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament, then defeating West Virginia, No. 6 Gonzaga and No. 8 Duke in last year's Phil Knight Legacy in Portland.
• Since its last appearance in the Maui Invitational (2014), Purdue owns a 25-6 record in Thanksgiving week tournaments, winning four events (2015, 2016, 2021, 2022) and finishing second in three more (2018, 2019, 2020).
• Purdue has won 27 straight regular-season, non-conference games, dating to a Dec. 8, 2020, setback at Miami, Fla. The streak is the longest in the country by a whopping 12 games (Connecticut - 15). The Boilermaker have also won 22 straight non-conference home games.
• The Boilermakers currently rank No. 1 nationally in offensive efficiency (119.5) and eighth in defensive efficiency (90.8). Early on, Purdue is one of four teams to rank in the top 10 in both categories (Purdue, Connecticut, Kansas, Arizona).
• With its No. 2 ranking this week, Purdue has been ranked in the top 5 of the AP poll in 18 straight weeks, the longest-active streak in America by 11 weeks (Kansas - 7). It has been ranked in the top 3 in 13 of those 18 weeks.
• Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Purdue has won 79 games against the KenPom top-50. The 79 wins are the second-most nationally behind Kansas' 103 wins. Purdue is 79-52 (.600) against the top 50, and 115-59 (.661) against the top 100.
• Zach Edey is 1-of-2 players nationally to average at least 20.0 PPG, 10.0 RPG and 3.0 BPG this season, doing that in just 25.8 minutes per game. He is also already ranked No. 1 in the 2024 KenPom Player of the Year standings, being named the MVP in all three games played.
• Purdue's 61 wins since the start of the 2021-22 season are tied for the fourth most in the country (Houston - 68, Kansas - 65, Arizona - 64, Gonzaga - 61, Duke - 61, UCLA - 61). Among Big Ten teams, Iowa (47) and Wisconsin (46) are next on the list.
• A year ago, Purdue became the first team since Wisconsin in 2015 to win an 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. No team since Michigan State (1999, 2000) has won consecutive Big Ten Tournament and outright regular-season championships.
• Purdue is in search for its 26th Big Ten Championship, already owning the most Big Ten titles in league history. Should Purdue win the Big Ten title in 2024, it will mark its fourth title in the last eight seasons and back-to-back titles for the first time since 1994-95-96.
• Matt Painter ranks fifth on the Big Ten's list for career wins with 416, needing just five victories to tie Illinois legend Lou Henson for fourth (421). On the Big Ten games-only chart, Painter is seventh (209 wins), needing one win to tie Indiana's Branch McCracken (210).
[2] Purdue (3-0) vs. [11] Gonzaga (2-0)
5 p.m. ET | Honolulu, Hawai'i
Stan Sherriff Center | 10,300
TELEVISION: ESPN2 (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Angel Gray)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• Part of perhaps the best tournament field ever assembled, the No. 2-ranked Purdue men's basketball team heads to paradise looking for its third consecutive tournament title when it faces No. 11-ranked Gonzaga in Monday's opening round of the Allstate Maui Invitational.
• Purdue (#2) and Gonzaga (#11) are two of six teams in the Maui field ranked in this week's AP Top 25 poll. Four of the teams are ranked in the nation's top seven, as Purdue and Gonzaga are joined by Kansas (#1), Marquette (#4), Tennessee (#7), UCLA (#25), Syracuse and Chaminade.
• Monday's game features KenPom's top two offenses in the country in offensive efficiency (Purdue - 119.5; Gonzaga - 119.2).
• Starting with the win over Xavier on Monday night, Purdue is now in the midst of a nine-game stretch that could POTENTIALLY have eight of the nine teams ranked in the KenPom top-60 and all of them as NCAA tournament teams from a year ago. Xavier (39), Gonzaga (7), possibly Tennessee (8), possibly Kansas (3) OR Marquette (9) OR UCLA (30), Texas Southern (227 - Last year's SWAC Champion), Northwestern (59), Iowa (39), Alabama (5) and Arizona (6). Of teams currently in the KenPom top nine, Purdue could play five of them.
• Purdue has won two straight Thanksgiving week tournaments, defeating No. 18 North Carolina and No. 5 Villanova in the 2021 Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament, then defeating West Virginia, No. 6 Gonzaga and No. 8 Duke in last year's Phil Knight Legacy in Portland.
• Since its last appearance in the Maui Invitational (2014), Purdue owns a 25-6 record in Thanksgiving week tournaments, winning four events (2015, 2016, 2021, 2022) and finishing second in three more (2018, 2019, 2020).
• Purdue has won 27 straight regular-season, non-conference games, dating to a Dec. 8, 2020, setback at Miami, Fla. The streak is the longest in the country by a whopping 12 games (Connecticut - 15). The Boilermaker have also won 22 straight non-conference home games.
• The Boilermakers currently rank No. 1 nationally in offensive efficiency (119.5) and eighth in defensive efficiency (90.8). Early on, Purdue is one of four teams to rank in the top 10 in both categories (Purdue, Connecticut, Kansas, Arizona).
• With its No. 2 ranking this week, Purdue has been ranked in the top 5 of the AP poll in 18 straight weeks, the longest-active streak in America by 11 weeks (Kansas - 7). It has been ranked in the top 3 in 13 of those 18 weeks.
• Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Purdue has won 79 games against the KenPom top-50. The 79 wins are the second-most nationally behind Kansas' 103 wins. Purdue is 79-52 (.600) against the top 50, and 115-59 (.661) against the top 100.
• Zach Edey is 1-of-2 players nationally to average at least 20.0 PPG, 10.0 RPG and 3.0 BPG this season, doing that in just 25.8 minutes per game. He is also already ranked No. 1 in the 2024 KenPom Player of the Year standings, being named the MVP in all three games played.
• Purdue's 61 wins since the start of the 2021-22 season are tied for the fourth most in the country (Houston - 68, Kansas - 65, Arizona - 64, Gonzaga - 61, Duke - 61, UCLA - 61). Among Big Ten teams, Iowa (47) and Wisconsin (46) are next on the list.
• A year ago, Purdue became the first team since Wisconsin in 2015 to win an 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. No team since Michigan State (1999, 2000) has won consecutive Big Ten Tournament and outright regular-season championships.
• Purdue is in search for its 26th Big Ten Championship, already owning the most Big Ten titles in league history. Should Purdue win the Big Ten title in 2024, it will mark its fourth title in the last eight seasons and back-to-back titles for the first time since 1994-95-96.
• Matt Painter ranks fifth on the Big Ten's list for career wins with 416, needing just five victories to tie Illinois legend Lou Henson for fourth (421). On the Big Ten games-only chart, Painter is seventh (209 wins), needing one win to tie Indiana's Branch McCracken (210).