GAMEDAY INFORMATION
[1 / 1] Purdue (8-0, 1-0) vs. [10 / 9] Iowa State (8-0, 0-0)
Saturday, December 6 | 12:00 PM ET
West Lafayette, Indiana | Mackey Area (14,876)
TV: CBS (Brad Nessler, Invoice Raftery
RADIO: Purdue World Radio Community (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE SCENE SETTER
• No. 1 Purdue hosts its hardest non-conference opponent to this point as No. 10 Iowa State visits Mackey Area for a Saturday showdown on CBS. The Boilermakers and Cyclones have mixed for a 16-0 begin and are personal the perfect regular-season, non-conference data within the nation for the reason that begin of the 2021-22 season (mixed 99-9 file). The squads are ranked No. 2 (Purdue) and No. 4 (Iowa State) on KenPom.
• Following the competition with Iowa State, Purdue will host Minnesota on Wednesday for its second Massive Ten December contest.
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• Purdue leads the all-time sequence with Iowa State by a 3-2 margin, however this would be the first recreation performed in a house facility since 1987-88 season, a 104-96 Iowa State victory in Mackey Area. It was the final time that Purdue misplaced when scoring 90 factors — a span of 13,893 days.
• Purdue is searching for its sixth season beginning 9-0 or higher for the reason that 1938-39 marketing campaign (first 12 months of NCAA). Three of the earlier 5 occurrences of 8-0 or higher have come underneath Matt Painter (2009-10, 2015-16, 2022-23).
• Purdue is ranked No. 3 within the NCAA NET rankings as of Thursday morning, trailing Michigan and Duke. Purdue is 2-0 in quad-1 video games and have performed simply two quad-4 video games up to now this season. Iowa State is No. 7 within the NCAA NET rankings.
• Purdue leads the nation in help / turnover ratio (2.17), whereas rating fifth in assists per recreation (20.6), fifth in 3-point share (.418), 18th in scoring margin (+21.7), 14th in rebound margin (+11.6), sixteenth in scoring margin (+21.0), twenty first in tunovers per recreation (9.5) and twenty third in area aim share (.510). Iowa State leads the nation in scoring margin (+30.9), turnover margin (+9.5) and is second in turnovers pressured per recreation (19.5). It is usually first nationally in area aim share (.550) and third in 3-point share (.433).
• Individually, Braden Smith is second in assists per recreation (8.9), Trey Kaufman-Renn is eighth in rebounds per recreation (11.0), Daniel Jacobsen is nineteenth in blocks per recreation (2.38) and Fletcher Loyer is eleventh in free throw share (.964), twenty first in 3-point share (.491) and thirty sixth in 3-pointers per recreation (3.25).
• Purdue (twenty third – fifth – twenty ninth) is considered one of 4 faculties nationally to rank within the prime 30 in area aim share, 3-point share and free throw share. The opposite three faculties are Colorado State (eleventh – 1st – third), Miami Ohio (fifth – twenty sixth – twenty third) and Yale (4th – 2nd – seventh).
• Purdue is one-of-eight faculties to rank within the prime 20 in each offensive and defensive effectivity, by way of KenPom.
• Purdue is 95-23 (.805) throughout the careers of Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kaufman-Renn. The 95 victories are the fourth-most nationally whereas the 80.5 profitable share is fifth nationally (Houston, Duke, UConn, Drake).
• The Boilermakers are 48-3 (.941) in non-conference play for the reason that begin of the 2021-22 season. Just one different group (Iowa State; 51-6) has fewer than seven losses in non-conference play throughout that timeframe.
• Purdue has tied a college file for consecutive weeks ranked within the prime 25 (64) after being ranked No. 1 for the fourth time in 5 weeks.
• For the reason that begin of the 2021-22 season, Purdue has been ranked No. 1 within the AP ballot 17 occasions. Auburn and Houston are subsequent with 11 weeks.
• For the reason that begin of the 2021-22 season, Purdue has been ranked within the AP High 10 in a nation’s-best 66 (of 85) polls. Kansas is second at 65.
• Braden Smith, who has 829 profession assists, wants 62 assists to maneuver into the highest spot on the Massive Ten’s profession assists record (Cassius Winston – 890 assists). Smith handed Mateen Cleaves (816 assists) for second place in Saturday’s win over Jap Illinois.
• Final season’s chief in blocked pictures, Trey Kaufman-Renn, had 11 blocked pictures in 36 video games. This 12 months’s chief, Daniel Jacobsen, already has 19 blocked pictures in eight video games. Groups shot 55.6 % from 2-point vary towards Purdue a 12 months in the past. This 12 months, it is at 48.3 %.
• Purdue has had two coaches for the reason that 1980-81 season (Gene Keady, Matt Painter). The duo has mixed for 991 wins at Purdue.
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