Friday was the final media day before the #FinalFour. Here is what Purdue players Braden Smith, Mason Gillis, Zach Edey, and Fletcher Loyer had to say.

For those of you who used Seat Geek or StubHub for ticket purchase. Have you received your ticket yet? I notice they warn you that the ticket itself may not show up until 24 hours before tipoff because of the venue ticket procedure. I'm on pins and needles until it hits my email. Just curious of others are seeing the same thing. Thanks

Smith and Rayl are about the same height, but Smith's arms and legs are 30% longer than Rayl's. That has to be an serious advantage on the court.

Nothing but respect from both sides.

This is a free one:

From a city built on the ghosts of canals to a Final Four team built on the ghosts of March failures, Purdue has risen from the ashes to play in Phoenix.

Raphael and Vincent are two of my favorite Boilers and really enjoyed their conversation about Boiler basketball, Coach Painter, and hypothetical match up b/w Vincent’s 2018/19 team vs the current Final 4 team.

Ya’ll check it out and show some love to Raphael’s podcast:

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The one good thing about being on the wrong side of a historic loss, the only people that could understand that feeling were in the locker room with each other.

"Constant reminders of our goal and constant reminders of our failures," Gillis said.

SIAP: they are definitely confident. Some so-called Purdue fans talking crap making our fanbase look awful. Good read especially if you’re looking to injest more content. I am too lazy to create an account but if you do, be nice and help lift up our image.

Will be interesting to see how he does there.

Every aspect of shooting form is spot on @tjreese

As others have said, I think we have several advantages and Zach SHOULD be too much for them to handle. He most certainly will be better than Burns... by a lot and Zach has 25 pounds of muscle over Burns.

Now.. NC State got to a FF for a reason. Their seeding was likely too low and the team certainly cannot take them for granted (which I have little doubt that they won't anyway).

Play our game and we could win by double digits. UT had the single best defense we have faced all season and we found a way to win.

One game at a time.. COME ON SATURDAY!!!

Camaraderie on display.

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The vote was 57-3. Congrats Zach!

With what PU has coming in, and coming back, does CMP look into the portal for another Jones?

And with Meetchicken and OSU losing coaches, are there any players from those schools you'd like to see as a Boiler.

Friday was the final media day before the #FinalFour. Here is what Purdue players Braden Smith, Mason Gillis, Zach Edey, and Fletcher Loyer had to say.

Zach is now halfway towards another sweep of all six National Player of the Year Awards.

I have no relatives there, no affiliation w/ the school but in my opinion they should be in it. They have a 28 - 6 record did well in their tournament, play in a conference that does well in Big Dance and got a star player / media darling. Think the committee blew it in regards to them while letting teams like UVA, MSU, and TAMU in.

Purdue Baseball is out on the road this weekend.

Purdue Baseball is out on the road this weekend.

Interesting article. I love that Painter believes in finding the guys that fit the mold. This article seems to prove that rankings are often wrong and the eye test matters most. https://247sports.com/college/purdu...tarter-ranked-as-a-recruit-229803463/#2399416

We all know Edey will break the Purdue rebounding record (in the next week or so) and has a shot to break the scoring record. But did you know where Zach stands on B1G records?

On scoring, last night Edey passed Jordan Bohannon, John Shurna and our very own Troy Lewis to move into 29th on the all time list. He's in good shape to crack the top 10 and could get as high as 6th. The top 30 is below"