GAMEDAY INFORMATION -- NCAA SECOND ROUND
[2 seed] Purdue (28-8) vs. [7 seed] Miami, Fla. (26-8)
Sunday, March 22, 2026 | 12:10 p.m. ET, 11:10 a.m. CT
St. Louis, Missouri | Enterprise Center (18,096)
TELEVISION: CBS (Spero Dedes, Jim Spanarkel, Jon Rothstein)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
PURDUE'S NUMBERS
• Overall: 28-8 | Big Ten: 13-7
• Home: 12-5 | Away: 8-3 | Neutral: 8-0
• NCAA NET: 9th | KenPom: 8th
• Off. Eff.: 1st | Def. Eff.: 38th
PURDUE BASKETBALL FAST FACTS
• No. 2 seed Purdue advanced to the NCAA Tournament second round with a 104-71 victory over 15th-seeded Queens on Friday night in St. Louis.
• Purdue improved to 28-8 overall and now owns the nation’s ninth-longest winning streak at five games.
• Purdue’s 104 points tied for the second most in an NCAA Tournament game behind the 106 scored vs. Utah State in the 2024 second round. Purdue’s 59 points in the second half were the fourth most in an NCAA Tournament game in school history.
• The 63.1 field goal percentage (41-of-65) was the highest for a Purdue team in NCAA Tournament history.
• Purdue became the first team in NCAA Tournament history to score 100 points, shoot 60 percent from the field, make at least 10, 3-pointers and outrebound its opponent by 20 or more boards.
• Purdue improved to 26-9 in NCAA Tournament first-round games and Matt Painter won his 25th NCAA Tournament game, now with a 25-17 overall record. Painter's 25 wins are tied for the third most with Bo Ryan for NCAA Tournament wins by a Big Ten coach (Izzo - 60; Knight - 42).
• Purdue improved to 16-3 in games played away from Mackey Arena, including 8-0 in neutral-site games. Purdue is outscoring opponents by 18.0 points per game and shooting 52.2 percent from the field and 40.5 percent from 3-point range in neutral-site contests. According to BartTorvik.com, Purdue ranks first nationally in overall efficiency in games played away from home.
• Purdue has not lost in the second round since a 63-60 loss to No. 2 seed Kansas in 2012. Purdue has won six straight second-round games, and is looking for its seventh Sweet 16 appearance in the last nine tournaments (since 2017).
• Since the 2017 NCAA Tournament, Purdue is 17-7, tied for fifth-most wins in the country during that span (Gonzaga – 24; Duke – 20; Houston – 20; Kansas – 18). Purdue's 10 NCAA Tournament wins since the 2022 Tournament rank tied for the fourth most (UConn - 14; Duke, Houston - 13).
• Purdue’s senior class won its 115th game of their careers, now just one win shy of the school-record 116 wins set by last year’s senior class.
• Purdue improved to 23-1 this season when holding opponents to under 48 percent shooting from the field.
• Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn are the third set of Purdue teammates to score at least 25 points in the same game in an NCAA Tournament game (Carsen Edwards, Ryan Cline vs. Tennessee – 2019 Sweet 16; Glenn Robinson, Cuonzo Martin vs. Kansas – 1994 Sweet 16).
• Braden Smith became the NCAA all-time leader in career assists with 1,083. With eight assists, Smith will become the sixth player in NCAA Tournament history with 100 assists in NCAA Tournament play (Hurley, Cota, Sherman Douglas, Miles, Greg Anthony).
• Smith's 325 assists this season rank as the 11th most in a season in NCAA history. He needs just eight assists to tie Avery Johnson (1987, Southern) for sixth on the NCAA single-season assists list. He is the second player in NCAA history with 500 points, 325 assists and 125 rebounds (2019 - Ja Morant, Murray State).
• Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 25 points with nine rebounds and three assists, going 12-of-18 from the field. Kaufman-Renn moved into 21st on the school’s career scoring list (1,606 points) and 12th on the career rebounds list (743).
• Fletcher Loyer scored 14 points, surpassing 100, 3-pointers on the season, now with 102. He now ranks third on the Purdue single-season 3-pointers made list (102). Loyer is now 54-of-112 (.482) from 3-point range since the start of February. Loyer has made at least two 3-pointers in 16 straight games and his 54, 3-pointers are the fourth most in the country since February 1.
• C.J. Cox is shooting 9-of-14 (.643) from the field and 6-of-9 (.667) from 3-point range in four career NCAA Tournament games (7.8 PPG).
• Purdue and Miami will be meeting for the fifth time in series history, with the Boilermakers owning a 3-1 advantage. The Hurricanes won the last meeting, a 58-54 decision in the 2020 ACC / Big Ten Challenge -- a game that Miami overcame a 20-point halftime deficit for the victory.