GAMEDAY INFORMATION -- GAME 05
[6] Purdue (4-0) vs. [15] Marquette (4-0)
9 p.m. ET | Milwaukee, Wis.
Fiserv Forum (18,000)
TELEVISION: FS1 (Jason Benetti, Bill Raftery)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• The No. 6-ranked Purdue men's basketball team hits the road for the first time in the 2024-25 season, facing another top-15 team when it heads to Milwaukee to face No. 15-ranked Marquette on Tuesday night in Fiserv Forum. It marks the 15th straight year that Purdue has faced top-20 opponents in consecutive games. The Boilermakers are coming off an 87-78 win over No. 2-ranked Alabama on Friday, while Marquette scored an impressive 78-74 win at Maryland.
• Since the 2021-22 season when playing consecutive top-20 ranked opponents, the Boilermakers own a 10-0 record. Purdue is 20-6 (.769) against nationally-ranked teams since the start of the 2021-22 season, including 10-2 against teams ranked in the top 10.
• The two teams have scheduled a home-and-home with Marquette returning to Mackey Arena next season. The squads didn't face each other from 1969 to 2017, but this will mark the fifth meeting in the last eight seasons. Three of Purdue's four games in the Gavitt Games came against Marquette in 2017, 2019 and 2022. The teams met last season in the finals of the Maui Invitational.
• Purdue has had success in Milwaukee and Fiserv Forum. The Boilermakers advanced to the Sweet 16 out of Milwaukee in the 2017 (Bradley Center) and 2022 (Fiserv Forum). Purdue did fall to Marquette in the Fiserv Forum in the 2019 Gavitt Games (65-55).
• With Arizona's loss to Wisconsin on Friday night, Purdue now has the nation's longest win streak in November at 25 games.
• The Boilermakers haven't lost a non-conference regular-season game since Dec. 8, 2020, at Miami, Florida -- a span of 1,443 days and 39 games. The streak is tied for the fourth-longest streak in NCAA history. Purdue has defeated eight teams ranked in the AP top 11 in that span.
• The Boilermakers are looking to start 5-0 for the fourth straight season. The last time Purdue didn't start 5-0 was in 2020-21, starting the season with a 3-2 record. The Boilermakers have started 8-0 (2021-22), 13-0 (2022-23) and 7-0 (2023-24) in its last three seasons.
• The trio of Trey Kaufman-Renn, Fletcher Loyer and Braden Smith have combined to average 50.5 points and 15.3 assists per game so far this season. The trio has scored 113 points (out of 179 points) in the last two games (53 vs. Yale; 60 vs. Alabama). The last time Purdue had three players average at least 15.0 points per game was in 2009-10 (Robbie Hummel, JaJuan Johnson, E'Twaun Moore).
• Yes it's early, but Braden Smith is averaging 15.5 points, 9.5 assists and 6.3 rebounds per game. At his current pace, he would be one of three players in NCAA history to average at least 15, 9 and 6 (Jason Kidd; Rex Morgan - Jacksonville, 1969-70).
• Trey Kaufman-Renn became the first player nationally since at least the 2006-07 season to score at least 26 points with eight rebounds and four assists with no turnovers in a game against a top-5 ranked team, reaching those marks against No. 2-ranked Alabama.
• Since the start of March 2024 (15 games), Fletcher Loyer is 31-of-50 (.620) from 3-point range,
• Purdue has been ranked in 41 straight AP Top 25 polls, the sixth-longest active streak in the country and the third longest in school history.
• With Purdue's No. 6 ranking in the AP Top 25 poll, Purdue has been ranked in the top six in 38 of the last 40 AP Top 25 polls. It has been ranked in the top 10 in 57 of the last 62 AP polls.
• Purdue is 34-9 all-time as the No. 6-ranked team, having won six straight games, including three wins over top-20 teams.
• Purdue is looking to become the first team to win three straight outright Big Ten titles since the Boilermakers did it in 1994-96. Ohio State also accomplished the feat in 1960-62 as the only programs to record an outright "threepeat".
• Purdue, Duke, Gonzaga and Houston are the only programs in America to have made at least a Sweet 16, Elite 8 and Final Four in the last five NCAA Tournaments. Purdue reached the Sweet 16 in 2022, the Elite 8 in 2019 and the Final Four in 2024.
[6] Purdue (4-0) vs. [15] Marquette (4-0)
9 p.m. ET | Milwaukee, Wis.
Fiserv Forum (18,000)
TELEVISION: FS1 (Jason Benetti, Bill Raftery)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• The No. 6-ranked Purdue men's basketball team hits the road for the first time in the 2024-25 season, facing another top-15 team when it heads to Milwaukee to face No. 15-ranked Marquette on Tuesday night in Fiserv Forum. It marks the 15th straight year that Purdue has faced top-20 opponents in consecutive games. The Boilermakers are coming off an 87-78 win over No. 2-ranked Alabama on Friday, while Marquette scored an impressive 78-74 win at Maryland.
• Since the 2021-22 season when playing consecutive top-20 ranked opponents, the Boilermakers own a 10-0 record. Purdue is 20-6 (.769) against nationally-ranked teams since the start of the 2021-22 season, including 10-2 against teams ranked in the top 10.
• The two teams have scheduled a home-and-home with Marquette returning to Mackey Arena next season. The squads didn't face each other from 1969 to 2017, but this will mark the fifth meeting in the last eight seasons. Three of Purdue's four games in the Gavitt Games came against Marquette in 2017, 2019 and 2022. The teams met last season in the finals of the Maui Invitational.
• Purdue has had success in Milwaukee and Fiserv Forum. The Boilermakers advanced to the Sweet 16 out of Milwaukee in the 2017 (Bradley Center) and 2022 (Fiserv Forum). Purdue did fall to Marquette in the Fiserv Forum in the 2019 Gavitt Games (65-55).
• With Arizona's loss to Wisconsin on Friday night, Purdue now has the nation's longest win streak in November at 25 games.
• The Boilermakers haven't lost a non-conference regular-season game since Dec. 8, 2020, at Miami, Florida -- a span of 1,443 days and 39 games. The streak is tied for the fourth-longest streak in NCAA history. Purdue has defeated eight teams ranked in the AP top 11 in that span.
• The Boilermakers are looking to start 5-0 for the fourth straight season. The last time Purdue didn't start 5-0 was in 2020-21, starting the season with a 3-2 record. The Boilermakers have started 8-0 (2021-22), 13-0 (2022-23) and 7-0 (2023-24) in its last three seasons.
• The trio of Trey Kaufman-Renn, Fletcher Loyer and Braden Smith have combined to average 50.5 points and 15.3 assists per game so far this season. The trio has scored 113 points (out of 179 points) in the last two games (53 vs. Yale; 60 vs. Alabama). The last time Purdue had three players average at least 15.0 points per game was in 2009-10 (Robbie Hummel, JaJuan Johnson, E'Twaun Moore).
• Yes it's early, but Braden Smith is averaging 15.5 points, 9.5 assists and 6.3 rebounds per game. At his current pace, he would be one of three players in NCAA history to average at least 15, 9 and 6 (Jason Kidd; Rex Morgan - Jacksonville, 1969-70).
• Trey Kaufman-Renn became the first player nationally since at least the 2006-07 season to score at least 26 points with eight rebounds and four assists with no turnovers in a game against a top-5 ranked team, reaching those marks against No. 2-ranked Alabama.
• Since the start of March 2024 (15 games), Fletcher Loyer is 31-of-50 (.620) from 3-point range,
• Purdue has been ranked in 41 straight AP Top 25 polls, the sixth-longest active streak in the country and the third longest in school history.
• With Purdue's No. 6 ranking in the AP Top 25 poll, Purdue has been ranked in the top six in 38 of the last 40 AP Top 25 polls. It has been ranked in the top 10 in 57 of the last 62 AP polls.
• Purdue is 34-9 all-time as the No. 6-ranked team, having won six straight games, including three wins over top-20 teams.
• Purdue is looking to become the first team to win three straight outright Big Ten titles since the Boilermakers did it in 1994-96. Ohio State also accomplished the feat in 1960-62 as the only programs to record an outright "threepeat".
• Purdue, Duke, Gonzaga and Houston are the only programs in America to have made at least a Sweet 16, Elite 8 and Final Four in the last five NCAA Tournaments. Purdue reached the Sweet 16 in 2022, the Elite 8 in 2019 and the Final Four in 2024.