Looks like all returning players are healthy. Haven't heard of any sprains or surgeries. Freshmen should start arriving June 1. No overseas trip this year.
So, they should all have a long summer to fit the new pieces in. Feels good to know who we have, while IU is still portal diving for 5-6 more mercenaries.
Assume, Benter will play in KY-IN All-Star games &
Jr-Sr. I bet Bidunga will be Mr. Basketball and Bill Self won't want him to play. Jr-Sr game on 6/5 at
Kokomo. IN-KY on 6/7 at Lex, KY, 6/8 in Indy (Gainbridge).
Last year, 1st Purdue practice was 9/26.

So, 18 teams coming in 2024. That's 4 more teams Purdue can lay waste to. Haven't heard who we might play in a charity ex game yet, in Oct. Last year,
Ark was announced 7/26. The schedule has Arizona and the San Diego Tournament, so far. If they keep B1G at 20 games, play 14 teams once home
or way, and 3 teams twice (I assume.) Yuck! B1G Tournament, I believe will keep the same format of 14 in, but bottom 4 are SOL.
Last year, non-conference schedule was announced 6/23. Full schedule was released 9/20.

The NBA, good luck Zach. New rule this year, any player invited to the combine must attend and participate, or will not be eligible to be drafted in the
current draft. Will have to wait for a subsequent daft. New draft format. Instead of all on one night, 1st Rd will be on 6/26 & 2nd Rd on 6/27. If a player wants to
stay in collage, must remove name by 5/29 midnight. List of early entrants. Don't see Ware in there, yet.

The spring transfer portal opened 3/18 and will close 5/1. Won't be able to enter, but can be selected.

If I've misspoken, feel free to tan my arse.

Don't forget, on Sat 4/13:
Bruno's Memorabilia Sale #2 8am-1pm, at Bruno's
Boiler Spring Game 12pm-2pm at Ross-Ade, and on BTN
Boiler Up!

Purdue will be hosting a plethora of prospects on Saturday afternoon for the spring game.

Will have a comprehensive post tomorrow morning, but here is the full list:

Commits/Signees:

Spencer Porath
Earl Kulp
Ty Hudkins
Luke Williams
Leland Smith
Sawyer Anderson
Tarrion Grant

Priority targets

Cameron Gorin: 2025 three-star OL
Darrin Strey: 2025 three-star OL
Mariyon Dye: 2025 four-star DE
Clarence Taylor: 2025 three-star WR
Kory Amachree: 2026 three-star RB
Chaston Smith: 2026 four-star CB

Best of the rest:

Avery Huggins
Kuol Kuol
Deshaun Lanier
Ben Verges
Jackson Verdugo
Paul Nelson
Jayden Petit
Jaidon Vanpelt
Jaeden Ricketts
Trae Taylor
Cameron Wagner

After four years with Purdue, senior guard Ethan Morton has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, per reports.

Since MSU won in 2000 the big ten has had a number of Final Four appearances: MSU 7, Michigan 2, Ohio State 2, Wisconsin 2 , Purdue , Illinois and IU one each. My numbers might not be perfect here but that’s about 0-16 winning it all. It’s not just a Purdue problem with athleticism.

Purdue forward and B1G 6th Man of the Year Mason Gillis has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal.

All teams should be rested, and there's not a lot they're going to do different if they're smart and stay with what got them here.

Personally, I'm a bit concerned that Purdue will struggle against a team that's on one hell of a ride and who's coach, that was on his way out before that roll just got a two year extension.

Burns may manhandle Zach, or will Zach surprise us all with more mobility than we've seen to date? Can Smith, Jones, and Loyer hit the three ball ofen enough to drag the defenders off Zach to shift to the guards. Will TKR play to his capabilities and even above and be an absolute game changer. Gillis...will he be on from three and if so will he be the game changer we all know he can be.

What about the bench...I'd love to see Furst come in and score and play great defense which we have seen him do, just not recently. Will Morton be a defensive thorn in State's arse? Will he suddenly start hitting shots or will he even play? Will Heide come in and give great defense and score under pressure such as he's not seen before? And what about Myles time on the floor if he sees it? Can he come in at this time of the year and provide scoring and enough defense to disrupt?

Will Painter continue his substitution pattern he's used for the last half of the season?

Who's the surprise for Purdue tomorrow that suddenly rises to the occasion?

And will CMP remain calm or will he panic if NCS jumps out to an early lead?

Or will urdue beeyatch slap NCS all over the arena early and often and send a message to the winner of Game 2.

Boiler up ladies....it's going to one hell of trip. I think TKR is that surprise tomorrow.

In addition to the spring game this Saturday, Purdue baseball is hosting Michigan State.

In addition to the spring game this Saturday, Purdue baseball is hosting Michigan State.

Purdue head coach Ryan Walters reveals the Boilermakers’ Spring Game format, which includes health being of the “utmost importance”

Any leads as to who will be leaving the team to make room for a new recruit? When Purdue accepted Harris LOI, it was said here CMP must have known someone wasn't returning. Well then, why hasn't word filtered out at the same time as Gillis and Morton since per the board it was already known? Just curious.....

Purdue's two in-state incoming freshmen will take on Kentucky in June.

Bernstein and Holmes just gutted CMP's coaching in last night's game. Said there's no way you go into that game with the plan to simply throw it inside and not have a way for your team to get open 3s...especially when you're down double digits and you're trading 2s for 3s. Felt that at the 4-minute mark with Purdue walking the ball up the floor, CMP and everybody but Edey quit. It was BRUTAL.

Purdue announces European trip this summer. This is much needed for several reasons. Gives this young team experience and time to gel. But also, more importantly perhaps, gives KG a nice recruiting sell to a senior or grad transfer with 1 year remaining a chance to see some of the world. This might help us land someone out of the portal.

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Something to think about especially a day from hearing from the low lifes on social media....

https://twitter.com/TMA622/status/1777893727014400290

Terry declares for WNBA Draft. Abbey Ellis could follow suit, but Madison Layden and Caitlyn Harper are not expected to pursue professional careers.

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Purdue's two in-state incoming freshmen will take on Kentucky in June.

IU is a team that is so bad, and in such disarray, that their fans don't post on their own board. They come here to celebrate winning and achievement with a real team, a real coach and real fans. We gladly welcome all disappointed IU fans to share and enjoy our successful run.... which is just getting started. Boiler up!

Ah, the student athlete……4 portal newbies, all new backcourt, the portal has created a mess for teams and any semblance of student/athlete

Y’all,

As a life long Boiler fan I think it’s important to remember and learn from the most embarrassing loss of all time.

NO, I’m not talking about North Texas, no I’m not talking about St Pete y’all, although both humiliating losses.

Yes, I am talking about FDU. At 312 in KenPom, this team didn’t even win their conference tournament. They were only in because the actual winner (another absolutely horrific team) was disqualified.

I mean FDU had D2 transfers on this squad and absolutely railroaded us.

After being embarrassed, for the third time in a row, each embarrassment more impressive than the last, we return the same squad.

We tried to play the exact same way with the same horrific team and get absolutely disgraced on Monday night. I mean we didn’t play anybody to get there.

Our whole team was pissing down their legs at the thought of having to take a shot while being guarded. We learned nothing and will learn nothing for next year.

I want a banner so bad! I want to be IU, they have 5 of them. Should we ask them to share a banner with us?

No probably not, they will just bend us over like UConn did.

.....and so it begins. Boiler Up!

Sam Carter and Purdue adding “different flavor” to what they hope is an improved cornerback room in 2024.

I think CMP does a good job of explaining what happened during the game, and how Purdue got stuck throwing the ball inside.

Yeah, they were just going to let us play one on one in the post. You see the 25 attempts that Zach
had,'' Painter said. "For us, we're just going to throw him the basketball and keep going, just be able to keep going to the well. You hope through the game, with what you do, that we could loosen that and get him. For us to get them to change, we had to get the lead, get them on their heels, and then get in that 10-minute mark. We couldn't get there. We couldn't get rebounds. You can't go on runs if you can't get stops.

"They're a great defensive team. So they just made a decision, like, we can defend the perimeter and we can take this away from you, then you're just going to get the ball to your best player, he's going to be one on one, then that's that. They were going to live with that. If we could have rebounded the basketball better, we could have got them to change and do that, but we weren't able
to do that. Then they stayed in control of the game. Not everybody can do what they just did. You have to give credit to their defense and their coach and how they're wired.''

Zach Edey has now officially done something that no other men's college basketball player has ever done.