GAMEDAY INFORMATION
[7 / 7] Purdue (21-4, 11-3) vs. [1 / 1] Michigan (24-1, 14-1)
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 | 6:30 p.m. ET
West Lafayette, Ind. | Mackey Arena (14,876)
TELEVISION: Peacock, NBCSN (Noah Eagle, Robbie Hummel, Cayleigh Griffin)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
PURDUE'S NUMBERS
• Overall: 21-4 | Big Ten: 11-3
• Home: 11-2 | Away: 7-2 | Neutral: 3-0
• Q1: 8-4 | Q2: 2-0 | Q3: 9-0 | Q4: 2-0
• NCAA NET: 7 | KenPom: 8
• Off. Eff.: 2nd | Def. Eff.: 19th
• NCAA SOS: 7 | KenPom SOS: 10
THE SCENE SETTER
• After concluding a grueling six-game in eight-game stretch on the road, No. 7 Purdue returns home for three straight challenges, beginning Tuesday night when No. 1 Michigan visits Mackey Arena. It will mark Purdue's third home game in the last 33 days (Jan. 15 to Feb. 17) and it kicks off a three-game homestand as Purdue enters the last month of the regular season before Selection Sunday.
• Following the matchup with Michigan, Purdue will host rival Indiana on Friday and end the homestand with Michigan State next Thursday.
THE SERIES
• Tuesday's meeting marks the 172nd meeting between Purdue and Michigan, with the Boilermakers leading the series 94-77. Michigan has, however, won two straight games in the series.
• Dating to the 2018 Big Ten Championship game in New York City, Michigan has won eight of the last 13 meetings.
• Purdue did win four straight in the series before Michigan's current two-game streak. The two-game streak is tied for the longest active winning streak by a Big Ten opponent.
• Tuesday's game will be the sixth top-10 showdown between the two teams. When both teams are ranked in the top 10, Purdue leads by a 4-1 margin.
• In 31 of the last 33 meetings (including Tuesday), one of the teams entered the game ranked in the top 25. In 15 of the games, a team was in ranked in the top 10.
NEWS AND NOTES
• Facing its toughest challenge of the season, Purdue aims for its fifth straight victory when No. 1-ranked Michigan visits Mackey Arena for the lone meeting this season.
• It will mark the first visit to Mackey Arena for a No. 1-ranked team since Jan. 8, 2005, when No. 1 Illinois defeated the Boilermakers 68-59, in Gene Keady's final season at Purdue.
• Michigan will be the first Big Ten team to be ranked No. 1, other than Purdue, since Michigan State was No. 1 in the preseason poll to start the 2019-20 season. Since that poll, Purdue has been ranked No. 1 for 17 weeks -- the second most in the country (Gonzaga - 30).
• Through Sunday's games, Purdue is 8-4 in quad-1 games, tied for the fourth-most quad-1 wins (Florida - 8) in the country behind Duke (10), Michigan (9) and Arizona (9).
• Purdue is 19-4 in the first three quads, the second-most wins in the first three quads nationally (Michigan - 23; UConn - 19). Purdue's two quad-4 games are the second-fewest nationally behind Michigan (1).
• Of Purdue's remaining six games, three of them are currently quad-1 contests (Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State). The others are right on the cusp of being quad-1 (Wisconsin - 33; Indiana - 34; Northwestern - 77).
• Purdue ranks in the top 25 nationally in assist / turnover ratio (1st), offensive efficiency (2nd), assists per game (3rd), turnovers per game (14th), field goal percentage (16th), defensive efficiency (19th) and rebound margin (20th).
• Purdue is 1-of-9 teams to rank in the top 20 in both offensive and defensive efficiencies (Purdue, Michigan, Arizona, Duke, Houston, Vanderbilt, Florida, Iowa State, Gonzaga).
• Purdue has been ranked in 74 straight AP Top 25 polls, the second-longest streak in the country behind Houston (121). Purdue has been in the top 10 in 73 of the last 95 polls.