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The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a men's college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference.. Purdue basketball has the most Big Ten regular season championships with 26 conference titles, and in 2024 became the first Big Ten program to be ranked as the #1 team in America for three consecutive seasons.
Conference tournament champion ^A. Purdue forfeited 18 regular season wins (6 conference wins) and vacated 1 NCAA Tournament win and 1 NCAA Tournament loss due to use of an ineligible player during the 1995–96 season.
On March 13, 1980, No. 7 ranked Indiana faced No. 20 Purdue in the 1980 NCAA Sweet 16, held in Lexington. This is the only time the two schools have ever met in the NCAA Tournament. Although Indiana freshman Isiah Thomas scored 30 points, Purdue ultimately won the game 76-69 behind 20 points from Keith Edmonson and Drake Morris.
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
The 2020–21 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team represented Purdue University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach is Matt Painter in his 16th season with the Boilermakers. [1] The Boilers play their home games at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana as members of the Big Ten Conference.
Purdue became the first team in tournament history to lose in consecutive years to 15-seeds or worse, having previously been eliminated by 15-seed Saint Peter's in the Sweet 16 of the 2022 tournament. [31] Fairleigh Dickinson advanced to the Round of 32, in which it faced the 9-seed Florida Atlantic Owls on March 19, 2023. It was competitive ...
Earlier, a victory in their conference opener over Iowa propelled the Boilermakers to No. 1 in both major polls for the first time in school history. Purdue finished the season by losing to 15 seed Saint Peter's in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, which is the first time in NCAA history that a 15 seed has won in the Sweet 16.
The NCAA stated that this was to preempt the College Basketball Crown, Fox Sports' new tournament in 2025 for 16 non-NCAA Tournament selected teams from the Big East, Big Ten, and Big 12, to be held at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip, openly admitting that it was engaging in anti-competitive practices out of concern that a strong ...