GAMEDAY INFO
Sunday, January 8, 2023
[1] Purdue (14-1, 3-1) vs. Penn State (11-4, 2-2)
Philadelphia, Pa. | The Palestra (8,922)
TELEVISION: BTN | RADIO: Purdue Sports Network
ANNOUNCERS: Brandon Gaudin, Robbie Hummel, Andy Katz
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• Purdue ends a difficult two-game road trip with a battle against a tough Penn State team at The Palestra in Philadelphia. The Boilermakers are looking to move their Big Ten road record to 3-0, already posting wins against Nebraska and Thursday against No. 24-ranked Ohio State. A win would give Purdue a four-game road winning streak for the first time since winning seven straight road games in 2017-18.
• Head coach Matt Painter will face former assistant coach Micah Shrewsberry for the third time after a pair of meetings last season. Shrewsberry is one of three former assistants since the 2018-19 season under Painter that are currently in head coaching roles (Shrewsberry; Greg Gary — 4th year at Mercer; Steve Lutz — 2nd year at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi).
• Purdue’s 14-1 record through 15 games ties the program’s best mark through 15 games (1987-88, 1993-94, 2009-10, 2010-11). Purdue has started 15-1 three times in school history (1987-88, 1993-94, 2010-11).
• Purdue can claim America’s best resume, owning five quad-1 wins, all of them against teams ranked in the NCAA Net’s top 25. Four of the wins (Marquette) have come away from Mackey Arena. Only Kansas has more quad-1 wins than Purdue (6).
• This will mark Purdue’s first Big Ten Conference game at a neutral site in school history. The last time Purdue played a neutral-site game against a Big Ten game came in Dec. 2002, against Indiana in Indianapolis (was not a conference game).
• The win over Ohio State gave Purdue its first Big Ten win and first “true” road win as the No. 1 team in the country in school history.
• With last Monday’s loss to Rutgers, eight of Purdue’s last 12 losses have come by three points or less. One more was by five points and two more came in overtime. Only one of the 12 losses was by more than nine points.
• In three neutral-site games against high-major opposition, Purdue is shooting 25-of-61 (.410) from 3-point range, averaging 79.7 points.
• Purdue started Thursday’s game against Ohio State by missing its first seven 3-point attempts. It…
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