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#2 Purdue Faces #4 Marquette for Maui Invitational Title

No. 2 Purdue faces No. 4 Marquette on Wednesday with a Maui Invitational title on the line. 

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GAMEDAY INFORMATION -- GAME 06 (MAUI INVITATIONAL)
[2] Purdue (5-0) vs. [4] Marquette (5-0)
5 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 Marquette will meet for the 12th time in school history, with Purdue holding a 10-1 series advantage. The two teams met in last year's Gavitt Games in West Lafayette, with Purdue holding on for a 75-70 victory, in what was the team's third game of the season (box score found later in packet).
  • In last year's win, Zach Edey scored 20 points with 13 rebounds, while Braden Smith had 20 points and 3 assists. After having two turnovers in the game's first two minutes, Purdue had just four turnovers in the last 38 minutes of the contest.
  • After not playing for almost 50 years from 1969 (NCAA Regional final won by Purdue), the teams played in the 2017, 2019 and 2022 Gavitt Games. This will mark the fourth game in the last seven seasons.
  • Purdue's Zach Edey and Marquette's Shaka Smart won last year's National Player of the Year and National Coach of the Year, respectively.
  • Purdue became the 11th program in NCAA history with 1,900 victories, joining the club in the win over Tennessee (Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, UCLA, Temple, Syracuse, Notre Dame, St. John's, Indiana).
  • After two wins over Samford and Morehead State to start the season, Purdue has now faced Xavier (30), Gonzaga (9), Tennessee (7), Marquette (6), Texas Southern, Northwestern (57), Iowa (38), Alabama (5) and Arizona (4) in nine straight games (KenPom ratings). Purdue will face teams ranked No. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in an 8-game stretch. The only teams out of the top eight it is not scheduled to play are Houston (2) and Connecticut (3).
  • The Boilermakers are appearing in their 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 seven straight games in Feast Week Tournaments, six of them over ranked teams, and five of them by at least nine points.
  • Purdue has won 29 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.
    • LONGEST NON-CONFERENCE, REGULAR-SEASON WIN STREAKS (Last 10 Years)
      • 31 – Villanova (2015-18)
      • 30 – Baylor (2019-21)
      • 29 – Purdue (2020-23)
  • Purdue has won 19 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 63-14 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 Tennessee was Purdue's 81st win 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 three, top-30 KenPom wins so far this year.
  • The win was Purdue's 35th against a top-25 team since the start of the 2016-17 season, tied for the fifth-most wins nationally. Purdue is 11-5 (.688) against top-25 teams since the start of the 2021-22 season. Among teams to have at least 10 wins against ranked teams in that span, Purdue has the second-best winning percentage (.688; Arizona – 12-4, .750).
    • MOST WINS OVER TOP-25 TEAMS (Since 2016-17 season)
      • 50 – Kansas
      • 38 – Baylor
      • 38 – Duke
      • 38 – Michigan State
      • 35 – Purdue
  • Purdue has made 93 free throws this season. Opponents have shot 64 free throws.
  • Purdue is just 8-of-32 (.250) from 3-point range in the Maui Invitational.
  • In the two second halves here in Honolulu, Purdue has held its opponents to a combined 64 second-half points, and just 21-of-64 (.328) from the field and 5-of-31 (.161) from 3-point range.
  • In nine Feast Week games, Zach Edey is averaging 20.2 points and 8.6 rebounds per game in 24.8 minutes per game, amassing 182 points and 77 rebounds in just 223 minutes. He is shooting 59-of-88 (.670) from the field.
  • Zach Edey became the first player since Texas' Kevin Durant (2006-07) to amass at least 110 points, 50 rebounds and 15 blocked shots in the season's first five games.
  • Edey surpassed 900 career rebounds in the win over Tennessee and is now one of three players in school history with at least 1,600 points and 900 rebounds (1980 NBA No. 1 Draft Pick Joe Barry Carroll, 1963 NBA Rookie of the Year Terry Dischinger).
  • Edey has scored in double-figures in 56 straight games, the longest streak in the country and tied for the third-longest streak in school history.
    • LONGEST PURDUE STREAKS OF 10 OR MORE POINTS
      • 72 – Rick Mount (Dec. 2, 1967 to March 7, 1970)
      • 57 – Joe Barry Carroll (Feb. 16, 1978 to Jan. 31, 1980)
      • 56 – Zach Edey (Jan. 30, 2022 to present)
      • 56 – Glenn Robinson (Dec. 28, 1992 to March 26, 1994)
  • Fletcher Loyer tied a career high with 27 points (set vs. Nebraska a year ago) while grabbing a career-high six rebounds in the win over Tennessee.
  • Trey Kaufman-Renn grabbed a career-high eight rebounds, coming in just 21 minutes, in the win over Tennessee.
  • Matt Painter has 418 career wins, needing just three victories to tie Illinois legend Lou Henson for fourth on the Big Ten's all-time wins list (421).