WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue women's basketball team will play its lone exhibition ahead of the 2023-24 campaign on Sunday with a 2 p.m. tip against Quincy at Mackey Arena.
As he closes in on game 1,000 of calling the Boilermakers, Tim Newton and Jane Schott return on the airways for the Purdue Radio Network on 95.3 BOB FM.
GAME INFORMATION
Quincy at Purdue (exhibition)
Sunday, Oct. 29
Time: 2 PM
TV: B1G+
Radio: 95.3 BOB FM
Live Stats: Purduestats.com
NOTES
• Purdue and Quincy have never met before on the court.
• Purdue returned to the NCAA Tournament last season for the first time since 2017, after posting a 19-11 record overall and a 9-8 mark in Big Ten play, the Boilermakers' first winning record in conference since 2017-18.
• The Boilermakers will open the year on the road at No. 4 UCLA on Nov. 6. Purdue last faced a top-5 opponent to start the season against No. 5 Kansas State in 2003-04 to start Katie Gearld's freshman campaign.
• Purdue has a challenging non-conference slate ahead facing four major conference opponents over its first five games.
• The 2023-24 schedule features eight games against teams ranked in the preseason AP Top-25, including seven against the top-14 in the first poll of the year.
• All-Big Ten Second Team selection Jeanae Terry returns for her third campaign in West Lafayette looking to climb the career assist charts, starting the year in 14th with 373 helpers at Purdue.
• Madison Layden enters her senior campaign in 14th on the career 3-point chart with 142 makes.
• To compliment the five returners on the roster, Gearlds welcomed in eight newcomers, including six freshmen for the 2023-24 season. The five rookies who signed in November were tabbed No. 21 in the nation, before top-50 recruit Amiyah Reynolds joined in May.
• Prior to this year, Purdue never had two sisters on a roster in program history. This season, the Boilermakers are the only team in the country with three sets of siblings with Madison and McKenna Layden, Caitlyn and Alaina Harper and Mila and Amiyah Reynolds.
• Gearlds also added a pair of star-studded staff members during the offseason in 1999 National Champion and associate head coach Kelly Komara and dynamic recruiting assistant coach Mark Stephens.