GAMEDAY INFORMATION -- GAME 19
[2] Purdue (16-2, 5-2) at Iowa (11-6, 3-3)
Saturday, January 20, 2024
2 p.m. ET | Iowa City, Iowa
Carver-Hawkeye Arena (15,500)
TELEVISION: FS1 (Brandon Gaudin, Robbie Hummel)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• The No. 2-ranked Purdue Boilermakers wrap up its only two-game road trip of the season when it travels to Iowa City to face the surging Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Tip is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT as the Boilermakers aim for their third win in a row after victories over Penn State and Indiana by a combined 38 points. The game wraps up the first half of league road games for Purdue.
• Including Saturday, Purdue will have played five of its first eight Big Ten games on the road. Purdue, Wisconsin and Illinois are the only teams in the Big Ten with multiple wins on the road in league play. Big Ten teams are a combined 12-34 (.261) entering Friday.
• The Boilermakers are 16-2 (or better) through 18 games for the second straight season. It marks the third time in Matt Painter's 19 seasons that Purdue has been 16-2 or better (2024, 2023, 2018), all coming in the last seven seasons. Over the last three seasons, Purdue is 55-6 in months November through January. A win will make Purdue 17-2 (or better) in consecutive seasons for the first time in school history.
• Following its loss to Nebraska on Jan. 9, Purdue has averaged 91.0 points per game in wins over Penn State and Indiana, while shooting 52.1 percent from the field and 41.9 percent from 3-point range. In the two games, Purdue's offensive efficiency is 131.4 (131.4 pts / 100 poss.).
• Purdue ranks in the NCAA's top 20 in rebound margin (6th), 3-point percentage (7th), assists per game (9th), fewest fouls per game (12th), scoring offense (13th), scoring margin (14th), field goal percentage (17th) and assist / turnover ratio (19th).
• Purdue leads the country in quad-1 wins (6) and quad-1 and 2 wins combined (10). Purdue has more quad-1 wins as teams ranked No. 5 (Alabama), 6 (Tennessee), 8 (Auburn) and 10 (Iowa State) combined.
• Since the start of last season, Purdue is 45-8, the fifth-most wins nationally, while the eight losses are the second fewest behind Houston (6). The eight losses during that span have come by 1, 5, 6, 14, 8, 5, 4 (OT) and 16 points. Thirty-two of the 45 wins have come against teams ranked in the KenPom top-100, including 24 against teams ranked in the top-50.
• Purdue's 16 wins ranks second nationally behind Grand Canyon's 17 victories. Purdue and UConn are the only major-conference teams to win at least 16 games so far this season.
• Purdue is 45-36 in Big Ten road games since the 2015-16 season, the fifth-best road record among major-conference teams in the country. Purdue is 9-5 in Big Ten road games since the start of last season.
• Purdue's schedule is currently the toughest in the country, ranking No. 1 in SOS by the NCAA NET team sheets, KenPom.com and ESPN. The Boilermakers have faced teams ranked No. 3, 5, 6, 13, 18, 35, 36 and 48 in NET, with additional games coming against 13, 15 (2x), 22, 48, and 49.
• Matt Painter has tied Lou Henson for fifth place on the all-time wins list for Big Ten Conference games only with 214 Big Ten victories. Purdue legend and John Wooden's head coach, Ward "Piggy" Lambert is next on the list with 228 wins.
• Purdue was voted No. 2 in the AP Top 25 poll on Monday, falling out of No. 1 for the first time since the Dec. 16, poll. With its No. 2 ranking this week, Purdue has now been ranked in the top 5 of the AP poll for 27 straight weeks, the longest-active streak in America by 11 weeks (Kansas - 16). It has been ranked in the top 3 in 21 of those 27 weeks.
• Purdue's starting lineup of Braden Smith, Lance Jones, Fletcher Loyer, Trey Kaufman-Renn and Zach Edey have started all 18 games. It's the longest stretch for a starting group to start the season since the 2017-18 season (28 games).
• Edey needs 55 points and 12 blocked shots to become the third player in NCAA history with 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 200 blocks and to shoot at least 60.0 percent from the field (Patrick Ewing, David Robinson).
• Edey ranks 3rd in scoring, 3rd in double-doubles, 5th in rebounds, 17th in field goal percentage and 17th in blocks per game on the NCAA lists.
• Purdue is now 16-2 (or better) through 18 games for the second straight season and for the third time in the last seven seasons (also 2017-18 season).
• Purdue is 16-2 (or better) in back-to-back seasons for the first time since the 1986-87 and 1987-88 squads. A win Saturday against Iowa would give Purdue 17-2 starts (or better) in consecutive seasons for the first time ever.
• With his next league victory, Matt Painter will move into fifth place by himself on the all-time wins list in Big Ten games with 215, passing Lou Henson. The two are currently tied with 214 Big Ten victories.
• Following the loss to Nebraska, this year's senior class (Edey, Morton, Gillis) have been court-stormed in every road loss but one (Michigan State - 2022) over the last three seasons (2021 didn't count - CoVid attendance), coming in nine of the 10 setbacks. All of the losses have occurred with Purdue ranked inside the top 10.
• Purdue has scored at least 87 points in each of the last two games. The last time Purdue scored at least 87 points in regulation in consecutive Big Ten games was Jan. 20 and 25, 2018, vs. Iowa (87-64) and Michigan (92-88).
• Purdue's 21-point victory over Indiana was Purdue's largest in the series since the 2002-03 season and the largest in Bloomington since a 47-13 (34 points) win in 1934 – a span of 90 years.
• Over the last two games, Purdue has 40 assists against 22 turnovers (1.82 A / TO Ratio). Purdue ranks eighth in the country in assists / field goals made at 63.9 percent.
• According to KenPom.com, the NCAA team sheets and ESPN, Purdue's schedule currently ranks as the toughest in the country.
• Over the last five games, Purdue is shooting 49-of-115 (.426) from 3-point range, making at least nine 3-pointers in four of the five games.
• Purdue now ranks seventh in the country in 3-point percentage (.396), a year after ranking 281st nationally in 3-point percentage. Purdue has finished in the top 10 in 3-point percentage three previous times under Painter (2017, 2018, 2022).
• Purdue currently has four players averaging at least 11.0 points per game. The last time Purdue had four players average at least 11.0 points per game was during the 2017-18 season (Carsen Edwards, Isaac Haas, Vince Edwards, Dakota Mathias). It has happened only five times previously in school history (2017-18, 1997-98, 1987-88, 1986-87, 1977-78).
• Zach Edey has scored 63 points, grabbed 34 rebounds and made 21 free throws over his last two games. He is the first Division I player to reach all of those numbers in a two-game span since Xavier's David West on Feb. 8 and 15, 2003.
• Braden Smith has dished out at least six assists in seven straight games, the longest stretch of six-plus assist games in school history. Smith is averaging 7.06 assists per game, just off the school record set by Bruce Parkinson (7.39) in 1974-75.
• Smith is currently averaging 8.0 assists per game in Big Ten play only. No player in Big Ten history has averaged at least 8.0 assists per game in league play (Cassius Winston - 7.9).
• Fletcher Loyer is shooting 57.1 percent (16-of-28) from 3-point range in Big Ten play. In conference play only, only Chattanooga's (SoCon) Trey Bonham (17-of-28) is at a higher percentage (.607) than Loyer.
[2] Purdue (16-2, 5-2) at Iowa (11-6, 3-3)
Saturday, January 20, 2024
2 p.m. ET | Iowa City, Iowa
Carver-Hawkeye Arena (15,500)
TELEVISION: FS1 (Brandon Gaudin, Robbie Hummel)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• The No. 2-ranked Purdue Boilermakers wrap up its only two-game road trip of the season when it travels to Iowa City to face the surging Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Tip is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT as the Boilermakers aim for their third win in a row after victories over Penn State and Indiana by a combined 38 points. The game wraps up the first half of league road games for Purdue.
• Including Saturday, Purdue will have played five of its first eight Big Ten games on the road. Purdue, Wisconsin and Illinois are the only teams in the Big Ten with multiple wins on the road in league play. Big Ten teams are a combined 12-34 (.261) entering Friday.
• The Boilermakers are 16-2 (or better) through 18 games for the second straight season. It marks the third time in Matt Painter's 19 seasons that Purdue has been 16-2 or better (2024, 2023, 2018), all coming in the last seven seasons. Over the last three seasons, Purdue is 55-6 in months November through January. A win will make Purdue 17-2 (or better) in consecutive seasons for the first time in school history.
• Following its loss to Nebraska on Jan. 9, Purdue has averaged 91.0 points per game in wins over Penn State and Indiana, while shooting 52.1 percent from the field and 41.9 percent from 3-point range. In the two games, Purdue's offensive efficiency is 131.4 (131.4 pts / 100 poss.).
• Purdue ranks in the NCAA's top 20 in rebound margin (6th), 3-point percentage (7th), assists per game (9th), fewest fouls per game (12th), scoring offense (13th), scoring margin (14th), field goal percentage (17th) and assist / turnover ratio (19th).
• Purdue leads the country in quad-1 wins (6) and quad-1 and 2 wins combined (10). Purdue has more quad-1 wins as teams ranked No. 5 (Alabama), 6 (Tennessee), 8 (Auburn) and 10 (Iowa State) combined.
• Since the start of last season, Purdue is 45-8, the fifth-most wins nationally, while the eight losses are the second fewest behind Houston (6). The eight losses during that span have come by 1, 5, 6, 14, 8, 5, 4 (OT) and 16 points. Thirty-two of the 45 wins have come against teams ranked in the KenPom top-100, including 24 against teams ranked in the top-50.
• Purdue's 16 wins ranks second nationally behind Grand Canyon's 17 victories. Purdue and UConn are the only major-conference teams to win at least 16 games so far this season.
• Purdue is 45-36 in Big Ten road games since the 2015-16 season, the fifth-best road record among major-conference teams in the country. Purdue is 9-5 in Big Ten road games since the start of last season.
• Purdue's schedule is currently the toughest in the country, ranking No. 1 in SOS by the NCAA NET team sheets, KenPom.com and ESPN. The Boilermakers have faced teams ranked No. 3, 5, 6, 13, 18, 35, 36 and 48 in NET, with additional games coming against 13, 15 (2x), 22, 48, and 49.
• Matt Painter has tied Lou Henson for fifth place on the all-time wins list for Big Ten Conference games only with 214 Big Ten victories. Purdue legend and John Wooden's head coach, Ward "Piggy" Lambert is next on the list with 228 wins.
• Purdue was voted No. 2 in the AP Top 25 poll on Monday, falling out of No. 1 for the first time since the Dec. 16, poll. With its No. 2 ranking this week, Purdue has now been ranked in the top 5 of the AP poll for 27 straight weeks, the longest-active streak in America by 11 weeks (Kansas - 16). It has been ranked in the top 3 in 21 of those 27 weeks.
• Purdue's starting lineup of Braden Smith, Lance Jones, Fletcher Loyer, Trey Kaufman-Renn and Zach Edey have started all 18 games. It's the longest stretch for a starting group to start the season since the 2017-18 season (28 games).
• Edey needs 55 points and 12 blocked shots to become the third player in NCAA history with 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 200 blocks and to shoot at least 60.0 percent from the field (Patrick Ewing, David Robinson).
• Edey ranks 3rd in scoring, 3rd in double-doubles, 5th in rebounds, 17th in field goal percentage and 17th in blocks per game on the NCAA lists.
• Purdue is now 16-2 (or better) through 18 games for the second straight season and for the third time in the last seven seasons (also 2017-18 season).
• Purdue is 16-2 (or better) in back-to-back seasons for the first time since the 1986-87 and 1987-88 squads. A win Saturday against Iowa would give Purdue 17-2 starts (or better) in consecutive seasons for the first time ever.
• With his next league victory, Matt Painter will move into fifth place by himself on the all-time wins list in Big Ten games with 215, passing Lou Henson. The two are currently tied with 214 Big Ten victories.
• Following the loss to Nebraska, this year's senior class (Edey, Morton, Gillis) have been court-stormed in every road loss but one (Michigan State - 2022) over the last three seasons (2021 didn't count - CoVid attendance), coming in nine of the 10 setbacks. All of the losses have occurred with Purdue ranked inside the top 10.
• Purdue has scored at least 87 points in each of the last two games. The last time Purdue scored at least 87 points in regulation in consecutive Big Ten games was Jan. 20 and 25, 2018, vs. Iowa (87-64) and Michigan (92-88).
• Purdue's 21-point victory over Indiana was Purdue's largest in the series since the 2002-03 season and the largest in Bloomington since a 47-13 (34 points) win in 1934 – a span of 90 years.
• Over the last two games, Purdue has 40 assists against 22 turnovers (1.82 A / TO Ratio). Purdue ranks eighth in the country in assists / field goals made at 63.9 percent.
• According to KenPom.com, the NCAA team sheets and ESPN, Purdue's schedule currently ranks as the toughest in the country.
• Over the last five games, Purdue is shooting 49-of-115 (.426) from 3-point range, making at least nine 3-pointers in four of the five games.
• Purdue now ranks seventh in the country in 3-point percentage (.396), a year after ranking 281st nationally in 3-point percentage. Purdue has finished in the top 10 in 3-point percentage three previous times under Painter (2017, 2018, 2022).
• Purdue currently has four players averaging at least 11.0 points per game. The last time Purdue had four players average at least 11.0 points per game was during the 2017-18 season (Carsen Edwards, Isaac Haas, Vince Edwards, Dakota Mathias). It has happened only five times previously in school history (2017-18, 1997-98, 1987-88, 1986-87, 1977-78).
• Zach Edey has scored 63 points, grabbed 34 rebounds and made 21 free throws over his last two games. He is the first Division I player to reach all of those numbers in a two-game span since Xavier's David West on Feb. 8 and 15, 2003.
• Braden Smith has dished out at least six assists in seven straight games, the longest stretch of six-plus assist games in school history. Smith is averaging 7.06 assists per game, just off the school record set by Bruce Parkinson (7.39) in 1974-75.
• Smith is currently averaging 8.0 assists per game in Big Ten play only. No player in Big Ten history has averaged at least 8.0 assists per game in league play (Cassius Winston - 7.9).
• Fletcher Loyer is shooting 57.1 percent (16-of-28) from 3-point range in Big Ten play. In conference play only, only Chattanooga's (SoCon) Trey Bonham (17-of-28) is at a higher percentage (.607) than Loyer.