Braden Smith is set to return for his fourth season at Purdue, entering the 2025–26 campaign as one of the top players in ...

College basketball analyst Jon Rothstein has moved Purdue up to the No. 1 spot in his preseason rankings for the 2025-26 ...

Half of those are Purdue players. The latest coup for Matt Painter and his staff came Monday: Braden Smith, the star guard who would have commanded big money on the transfer market or could have ...

Houston's game plan Friday night was a gamble: Gang up on Purdue point guard Braden Smith and hope to keep him from winning this Sweet 16 game. Houston very nearly lost that bet. Smith ...

Braden Smith enters Purdue's game vs. UCLA on Friday with 688 assists - two shy of Bruce Parkinson's program record. Next season, Smith could pursue former Duke guard Bobby Hurley's NCAA record of ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Purdue star guard Braden Smith's parents both played college basketball at Arkansas Tech, meeting for the first time in the training room. Ginny and Dustin Smith spent countless ...

For all the painstaking consideration of who truly wanted him, there was a Braden Smith-sized hole in the wall immediately after Purdue officially said it did. “He told me on the Zoom, ...

Trey Kaufman-Renn went from playing 17 minutes per game as a sophomore to Purdue's top scorer and rebounder in 2024-25, ...

Braden Smith had a banner season for Purdue basketball, proving his statistics as the Boilermaker point guard in his first two seasons weren't solely a product of having Zach Edey as a teammate.

Dustin Smith grew up in Indiana and was a childhood friend of Austin Parkinson, Bruce’s son and a Purdue player under coach Gene Keady in the early 2000s. By March 2021, Braden Smith had eight ...