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THE SCENE SETTER<\/strong><\/em> THE NOTES TO KNOW<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n GAMEDAY INFORMATION[1 \/ 1] Purdue (4-0) vs. Memphis (1-2)Thursday, November 20 | 6 p.m. ETNassau, Bahamas | Baha Mar Grand Ballroom (2,000)TV: CBS Sports Network (Chris Sylvester, Kyle Macy, Ana Bellinghausen)RADIO:\u00a0Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell) THE SCENE SETTER\u2022 Returning to the top of the AP poll, the No. 1-ranked Purdue Boilermakers travel … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-Purdue-Faces-Memphis-in-Baha-Mar-Championship-Purdue.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Returning to the top of the AP poll, the No. 1-ranked Purdue Boilermakers travel to the Baha Mar Championship in search of their fifth straight MTE Tournament title. Purdue will face Memphis in Thursday’s opening game, followed by No. 15 Texas Tech against Wake Forest. The third-place and Championship game are scheduled for Friday at 7 and 9:30 p.m. ET, respectively.
\u2022 Following the trip to the Bahamas, Purdue will be off for the next week before hosting Eastern Illinois on Black Friday at noon.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Boilermakers are looking to start 5-0 or better for the fourth time in the last five seasons (2021-22 –> 8-0; 2022-23 –> 13-0; 2023-24 –> 7-0).
\u2022 Purdue has won 10 straight “Feast Week” contests, resulting in four straight tournament titles. Eight of the 10 wins have come against teams ranked in the AP Top 25, including six ranked in the top 11.\u00a0
\u2022 Purdue will be facing Memphis for the first time since Matt Painter<\/a>‘s first year at Purdue — a 90-70 Tigers’ victory in Dec. 2005.\u00a0
\u2022 Memphis has won four straight games against Purdue dating to the Boilermakers’ last victory in the NCAA Tournament in 1988. The four-game winning streak is tied with Cincinnati for Purdue’s longest active losing streak against an opponent.
\u2022 Purdue has posted a 31-9 (.775) record in neutral-site games since the start of the 2021-22 season, including an 18-3 record vs. unranked foes.
\u2022 One week after being demoted to No. 2, Purdue returned to No. 1 in the AP poll, grabbing 42 first-place votes to outdistance Houston. Since the 2021-22 season when Purdue became ranked No. 1 for the first time ever, the Boilermakers have been ranked No. 1 in 15 weeks, the most in the country (Houston – 11 weeks; Auburn – 11 weeks).\u00a0
\u2022 Purdue is boasting an offensive efficiency of 127.8 via KenPom.com. That number is currently the fourth-best mark in KenPom history behind Duke (2025), Wisconsin (2015) and Florida (2025).
\u2022 Among players that have played at least two games, Trey Kaufman-Renn<\/a> leads the country in rebounding (15.0 RPG). He is one of three players nationally to have two games of at least 15 points and 15 rebounds (Kent State’s Delrecco Gillispie; Michigan State’s Jaxon Kohler).
\u2022 Braden Smith<\/a> was named the Big Ten’s Player of the Week on Monday after averaging 22.5 points, 7.0 assists and 5.0 rebounds in two wins. Smith, Texas Tech’s Christian Anderson and Florida State’s Robert McCray V are the only players nationally to average 15.0 points, 8.0 assists and 4.0 rebounds per game so far this season.
\u2022 Smith moved into third place on the Big Ten’s career assists list with 792 helpers. Next on the chart is Mateen Cleaves (816 assists).
\u2022 With Fletcher Loyer<\/a> scoring 30 points in the opener, Purdue now has four active players with 30-point games (Smith, Cluff, Kaufman-Renn).
\u2022 Purdue is one of four schools nationally (Illinois, BYU, USC, Purdue) to have three players averaging at least 17.0 points per game. Purdue is the only school nationally to have two players averaging a double-double (Trey Kaufman-Renn<\/a>, Oscar Cluff<\/a>).
\u2022 Smith is fourth nationally in assists per game (8.5), while Oscar Cluff<\/a> is fourth in offensive rebounds (5.5) and 17th in rebounds (11.0).
\u2022 Braden Smith<\/a> is already the only player in Big Ten conference history to amass 1,400 points, 775 assists and 550 rebounds and 175 steals. He is one of seven players in NCAA history to reach those marks.
\u2022 Purdue signed four players on National Signing Day (Luke Ertel, Jacob Webber, Sinan Huan, Rivers Knight) from the Class of 2026. According to 247Sports, Purdue’s class ranks second nationally behind Kansas.\u00a0
\u2022 Matt Painter<\/a> ranks fourth on the Big Ten’s list for career wins with 475, trailing only Tom Izzo (740), Bob Knight (662) and Gene Keady (512) in Big Ten history. Painter has 500 career victories, becoming the seventh-fastest active coach with 500 victories.<\/p>\n
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