PURDUE vs. OHIO (Gameday Information)
Friday, November 13, 2026 || West Lafayette, Indiana || Mackey Arena || 7:00 p.m. ET
THE SCENE SETTER
GAMEDAY INFORMATION -- GAME 04
Purdue (1-2, 0-0 B1G) vs. Ohio (2-0, 0-0 MAC)
Friday, November 13, 2026 | 7:00 p.m. ET
West Lafayette, Indiana | Mackey Arena (14,876)
ONLINE: B1G+ (Declan Little, T.J. Silkaitis, Lorelei Jager)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE SCENE SETTER
• Aiming to keep momemtum moving forward, the Purdue men's basketball team shoots for its second win in a row hosting unbeaten Ohio on Friday night in Mackey Arena. The Boilermakers used a strong defensive effort over the last 10 minutes to earn its first win of the year against one of the MVC favorites, Illinois State, and look for a repeat performance against perennial MAC contender Ohio.
• The middle game of a season-long, five-game homestand, the Boilermakers will spend one more week at home before entering the teeth of their non-conference schedule. Purdue will host Lipscomb on Nov. 17, before ending the homestand with Oakland on Nov. 20.
BOILER NOTES
• Purdue is college basketball's 10th-winningest program in the country, owning an "official" NCAA all-time record of 1,984 - 1,103 (.643). Purdue needs 16 wins to become the ninth school in NCAA history with 2,000 victories.
• Over the last 10 seasons (since 2016-17), Purdue owns the ninth-best home record in the country with a 141-20 (.876) mark. Among power-conference teams, Purdue ranks fourth in homecourt winning percentage during that time frame (Houston, Kansas, Duke).
• Purdue ranks 16th nationally in free throw percentage (.817) and is 43-of-50 (.860) from the charity stripe over the last two games.
• On Monday night, Purdue played its 300th game against non-conference opposition under Matt Painter in the win over Illinois State. Purdue is 228-72 (.760) against all non-conference opposition, including 64-11 (regular season and postseason) since the start of the 2021-22 season. In Mackey Arena, Purdue is 141-11 (.928) under Painter against non-conference opposition.
• Purdue held Illinois State to just 59 points (entered game averaging 92.5 PPG) in Monday night's victory. The Boilermakers improved to 194-7 under Matt Painter when holding teams under 60 points, having won 37 straight games (last loss: Dec. 8, 2020 at Miami, Fla.).
• Purdue's freshmen through junior classes have scored 214 of Purdue's 228 points year, accounting for 93.9 percent of its scoring.
• Purdue owns a plus-17 scoring margin in the first half of games this year, but is minus-9 in the second half and overtime.
• Purdue hasn't allowed a run of greater than seven points this season (Gonzaga - 7). Purdue has had five runs of 7-0 or longer.
• Daniel Jacobsen ranks in the nation's top 50 in points per game (16th; 23.3), field goal percentage (19th; .750), field goals made (33rd; 24), free throws made (33rd; 21) and free throw attempts (47th; 25). Jacobsen is 1-of-3 players nationally (Arizona's Ivan Karchenkov; Arizona State's Paulius Marauskas) to average at least 23.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game.
• Antione West Jr., is fifth in scoring (11.3 PPG) among Big Ten newcomers playing their first season of collegiate basketball.
• Daniel Jacobsen currently ranks sixth in the KenPom Player of the Year race through the first 10 days, one of three Big Ten players named.
• Matt Painter (502) is just 11 wins from passing his mentor and Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Gene Keady (512) on the school's all-time wins list. The earliest that Painter could pass Keady would be Dec. 30 vs. USC.
• With Painter reaching 500 wins last season against Miami, Fla., in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Purdue became the second school in NCAA history to have two coaches with at least 500 victories (Kansas - Bill Self, Phog Allen).
• Purdue has had a consensus first- or second-team All-American in eight of the past 10 seasons despite never enrolling a top-30 recruiting class and just one top-30 prospect during that span. This year's freshmen class broke the trend, ranked in the top 15 nationally.
• Tonight's contest with Ohio marks the 109th straight sellout in Mackey Arena, dating to the 2018-19 season.