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#3 Purdue Battles Maryland on Sunday in Mackey

#3 Purdue Battles Maryland on Sunday in Mackey


GAMEDAY INFO
Sunday, January 22, 2023
[3] Purdue (18-1, 7-1) vs. Maryland (12-6, 3-4)
West Lafayette, Ind. | Mackey Arena (14,876)
TELEVISION: ESPN2 | RADIO: Purdue Sports Network
ANNOUNCERS: Brandon Gaudin, Stephen Bardo

THE NOTES TO KNOW

• After being on the road for four of its last five games, the No. 3-ranked Purdue basketball team returns home for a Sunday afternoon tilt with Maryland — the first of two meetings this season with the Terrapins. This will mark just Purdue’s fourth Big Ten home game, but starts a stretch where the Boilermakers are home for four of their next six contests. 

• Purdue is coming off a historic “four-in-five” road-game stretch, winning all five games including all four on the road. In the 10 occurrences that Purdue had four road games in a five-game stretch, the Boilermakers never previously posted a 5-0 record. 

• Purdue’s 18-1 record is the program’s best 19-game start in school history. A win over Maryland will give Purdue a 19-1 record through 20 games, just the fifth time since 2000 that a Big Ten team would start 19-1 (2019 Michigan; 2013 Michigan; 2011 Ohio State; 2005 Illinois). 

• Last Friday’s win over Nebraska gave Purdue its 1,900th in school history, the 11th team to reach that total. Purdue is 1,902-1,054 (.643) all-time. 

• With the win over Michigan State, Matt Painter became the seventh coach in Big Ten history to win 200 league games (Bob Knight, Tom Izzo, Gene Keady, Piggy Lambert, Lou Henson, Branch McCracken). He is one of five coaches to win 400 games while at a Big Ten school.

• Purdue can claim America’s best resume, being one of two teams in America (Kansas) with seven quad-1 wins, five of them against teams ranked in the NCAA Net’s top 30 (Gonzaga, Ohio State, West Virginia, Marquette, Duke). Six of the wins (Marquette) have come away from home.

• After being one of the final two teams in the country with zero losses (New Mexico was last), Purdue is now one of four teams nationally with just one loss (Houston, Purdue, Florida Atlantic, College of Charleston). 

• After struggling shooting the ball for the majority of the season, Purdue has gone 48-of-116 (.414) from 3-point range over its last nine halves of basketball. Prior to this stretch, Purdue was 93-of-309 (.301) from long range. 

• One year after ranking…

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