Purdue guard Braden Smith and forward Trey Kaufman-Renn are among those with the best odds to win the Wooden National Player ...

Expectations are high in West Lafayette as Purdue prepares for the 2025-26 season. With so much talent, many peg the ...

Incoming freshman Omer Mayer from Israel showed out at the FIBA 19U World Basketball Cup, giving Boiler Nation reason for ...

College basketball's top award will be hotly contested this upcoming season, with Braden Smith listed as the early favorite ...

Braden Smith #3 of the Purdue Boilermakers shoots the ball during the second half against the Northwestern Wildcats at Mackey Arena on Jan. 5, 2025, in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Braden Smith, Purdue's standout point guard going into his junior year, wasn't offered a scholarship by any program close to the Big Ten level.

Without Zach Edey, would Braden Smith fall off or flourish?. The 2024-25 season answered that of Purdue basketball's junior point guard.. On Tuesday, a resounding stamp on it came when Smith was ...

Purdue's Braden Smith has made history all season but might've saved his best for last – this Sweet 16 loss to Houston. And "last" could be literal.

Before Braden Smith became Purdue's all-time assists leader this year as a junior and his "Peaky Blinders" beard became the face of the post-Zach Edey Boilermakers, he grew up in the ...

Purdue's Braden Smith has made history all season but might've saved his best for last – this Sweet 16 loss to Houston. And "last" could be literal.

It was another 40-minute night for Purdue point guard Braden Smith. Due to circumstance, the Boilers needed him to take over. Then he did.

Ginny Smith said one Zoom call with Braden and the Purdue coaches was all it took to win him over. She forced him to sleep on it, but within a couple of days he was committed.