Purdue Boilermakers NCAA Basketball News

Purdue men's basketball coach Matt Painter has never had depth like this before.

So Purdue plays its second and final exhibition game, against traditional Division II power Kentucky Wesleyan.

Jay Simpson has never started a varsity game at Champaign Central High School and won't turn 16 until Dec.

Friday's news that 6-9, 261-pound freshman center Sandi Marcius will miss 4-to-6 weeks with a fractured second metatarsal of his right foot means that fellow Purdue freshmen Patrick Bade and DJ Byrd will have to help JaJuan Johnson and Robbie Hummel along the front line.

What's Matt Painter do? The Purdue coach wants to win, play well, utilize depth and maximize potential.

Here comes college basketball , and since every pre-season discussion apparently needs a top 10 and a Dick Vitale appearance, we have it.

7 Purdue Boilermakers beat California of Pennsylvania 78-44 in an exhibition game on Tuesday night.

Purdue guard Chris Kramer and Notre Dame forward Luke Harangody, both members of the 2006 Indianapolis Star Indiana All-Star team, are two of the 30 finalists for the Lowe's Senior Class Award.

Well, we'll get our first live look at Purdue in its season of big expectations, as it opens the two-game exhibition schedule against California of Pennsylvania, a Division II school near Pittsburgh.

Chris Kramer soared, Keaton Grant scored and the Paint Crew roared. So much for Boiler exhibition vulnerability.

Leading into the college basketball season openers, Sporting News will preview each of the top 25, counting backward from our preseason power poll.

It's taken more than 15 seasons, but the Mountain State has made it back on the Associated Press basketball poll map.

Tom Izzo has witnessed Big Ten Conference basketball from the Michigan State bench for the past 27 years.

Coach: Matt Painter . Last season's record: 27-10 overall, 11-7 in Big Ten . Postseason: Lost in third round of NCAA tournament to Connecticut .

The University of Minnesota men's basketball team will enter the season nationally ranked for the first time since 2002, at No.

There's nothing subtle about a Purdue basketball practice. The players wear shorts with the words "PLAY HARD" stitched across the rear.

As there are a bunch of things you won't hear, there's also some stuff you're guaranteed to hear today at Big Ten basketball media days in Chicago.

Posted on Oct 29, 2009 by Scott Dochterman . Michigan State's men's basketball team was selected as the preseason favorite to repeat as Big Ten champions by a 24-member media panel.

Purdue sophomore guard Lewis Jackson missed Tuesday's practice because of a scratched eye.

Thursday is the annual Big Ten Basketball Media Day in Chicago where all 11 coaches will be on hand along with two or three of their players to do interviews with both the print and electronic media.