BOILER NOTES
• Purdue owns a 107-21 record in season openers, including a 20-1 mark under head coach Matt Painter. The Boilermakers have won 13 straight openers by an average of 29.7 points per game.
• Purdue is college basketball’s 10th-winningest program in the country, entering the season with an “official” NCAA all-time record of 1,983 - 1,101 (.643).
• Purdue will battle a ranked team in the season opener for just the sixth time in school history, last facing No. 12 Memphis in the 1995-96 opener (L, 91-75). Other games against ranked teams came in Nov. 1992 (W, 73-69 vs. #16 Connecticut), Nov. 1976 (L, 97-80 to #13 Alabama), Nov. 1968 (L, 94-82 to #1 UCLA) and Dec. 1967 (L, 73-71 to #1 UCLA).
• Purdue hasn’t been on the road in a season opener since the 2020-21 CoVid season, when it defeated Liberty, 77-64, in the Space Coast Classic in Melbourne, Florida. This will mark just the second time Purdue has been away from Mackey Arena in an opener under Matt Painter.
• For the first time since the 2014-15 season, Purdue did not have a player voted to the preseason All-Big Ten Team.
• Matt Painter (501) is just 12 wins from passing his mentor and Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Ge...