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#2 Purdue Battles #7 Tennessee in Maui Invite Semifinal Showdown#2 Purdue Battles #7 Tennessee in Maui Invite Semifinal Showdown

#2 Purdue Battles #7 Tennessee in Maui Invite Semifinal Showdown

No. 2-ranked Purdue battles No. 7-ranked Tennessee for a spot in the Maui Invitational title game. 

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GAMEDAY INFORMATION -- GAME 05 (MAUI INVITATIONAL)
[2] Purdue (4-0) vs. [7] Tennessee (4-0)
8 p.m. ET | Honolulu, Hawai'i
Stan Sherriff Center | 10,300
TELEVISION: ESPN (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Angel Gray)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)

THE NOTES TO KNOW
  • Purdue and Tennessee will meet for the sixth time in school history, with Purdue owning a 3-2 series advantage. The two teams last met in the 2019 Sweet 16 in Louisville, with Purdue pulling out a 99-94 overtime victory at the KFC Yum! Center (box score found later in packet). The previous two meetings before that came in the 2017 Battle 4 Atlantis (Tennessee, 78-75 in overtime) and the 2009 Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands (Purdue, 73-72). The last three meetings have been decided by 5 (overtime), 3 (overtime) and 1 point.
  • Tuesday's game marks the first contest for Purdue when both teams are ranked in the top 7 since Nov. 21, 2021, when the No. 6-ranked Boilermakers defeated No. 5-ranked Villanova, 80-74.
  • After two wins over Samford and Morehead State to start the season, Purdue has now faced Xavier (30), Gonzaga (9), Tennessee (7), Kansas (4) or Marquette (11), Texas Southern, Northwestern (57), Iowa (38), Alabama (6) and Arizona (5) in nine straight games (KenPom ratings).
  • The Boilermakers are looking for their first Allstate Maui Invitational title-game appearance since falling in the 1999 title game to No. 4-ranked North Carolina, 90-75.
  • Purdue is looking for its third straight Feast Week championship, after winning the 2021 Hall of Fame Tipoff Classic (def. North Carolina, Villanova) and the 2022 Phil Knight Legacy (def. West Virginia, Gonzaga, Duke). The Boilermakers have won six straight games in Feast Week Tournaments, five of them over ranked teams, and five of them by at least nine points.
  • Purdue has won 28 straight non-conference, regular-season games, the longest streak in the country (UConn – 17). Its last loss came in a 58-54 loss to Miami, Fla., on Dec. 8, 2020.
  • Purdue has won 18 straight games in the month of November. The last Purdue loss in the month of November came to Clemson on Nov. 26, 2020, in the SpaceCoast Challenge – also the last time Purdue lost a Feast Week game.
  • Since the start of the 2021-22 season, Purdue is 62-14 overall – the fourth-most wins in the country (Houston – 71; Kansas - 66, Arizona – 66). Among Big Ten teams, Iowa (48) and Wisconsin (47) are next on the list.
  • The win over Gonzaga was Purdue's 80th against KenPom top-50 teams since the start of the 2016-17 season, the second-highest total in the country behind Kansas' 103. Purdue is the only team in America with two, top-30 KenPom wins so far this year.
  • The win was Purdue's 34th against a top-25 team since the start of the 2016-17 season, good for the sixth-most wins nationally.
  • Purdue ranks first nationally, according to the KenPom ratings and is third nationally in offensive efficiency and fifth nationally in defensive efficiency. Zach Edey is first nationally in the KenPom Player of the Year ratings and has been named the team MVP in all four games (one of three players nationally with four KenPom game MVPs).
  • With the No. 2 ranking in the AP top 25 poll, Purdue has been ranked in the nation's top 5 in 19 straight weeks dating to last year, the longest streak in the country (Kansas is 2nd at 8 straight weeks). Before the 2021-22 season, Purdue had been ranked in the top 5 in 38 weeks. Since the 2021-22 season, Purdue has been ranked in the top 5 in 31 weeks.
  • Purdue owns a 17-4 record ranked as the No. 2 team in the country, having won five straight games. The Boilermakers are 9-19 all-time against teams ranked No. 7.
  • In eight Feast Week games, Zach Edey is averaging 19.9 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in 24.6 minutes per game, amassing 159 points and 67 rebounds in just 197 minutes. He is shooting 52-of-78 (.667) from the field.
  • Zach Edey needs nine rebounds for 900 in his career. His 21 career 20-10 games in 103 contests played are tied for the second most among active players (Armando Bacot – 22; 135 games).
  • Over the last three games, Zach Edey is 27-of-30 (.900) from the free throw line. As a team, the Boilermakers are 50-of-64 (.781) from the free throw line.
  • Zach Edey is averaging 21.8 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.5 blocked shots per game. Since the 1992-93 season, just three players have averaged at least 21.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game. No one has done since the 2002-03 season (Carlos Rogers in 1993-94 – Tennessee State; Adonal Foyle in 1996-97 – Colgate; Chris Kaman in 2002-03 – Central Michigan).
  • In two games against Gonzaga, Braden Smith averaged 13.5 points, 6.5 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game.
  • Braden Smith is the only player in America to average at least 12.0 points, 7.0 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. He is shooting 55.6 percent from the field.
  • Purdue has made 64 free throws this season. Opponents have shot 34 free throws.
  • Matt Painter has 417 career wins, needing just four victories to tie Illinois legend Lou Henson for fourth on the Big Ten's all-time wins list (421).