- No.-1 ranked Purdue improved to 7-0 with a 99-67 victory over Texas Southern in front of the 61st consecutive sellout at Mackey Arena.
- Purdue has now started the last three seasons 8-0, 13-0 and now 7-0. It marks the fifth time under Painter that Purdue has started at least 7-0 (2023-24; 2022-23; 2021-22; 2015-16; 2009-10).
- Purdue has won 31 straight non-conference, regular-season games, tied for the longest streak by any team nationally over the last 10 years (Villanova – 2015-18).
- The Boilermakers have won 24 straight non-conference games in Mackey Arena, dating to a loss on Nov. 9, 2019, vs. Texas.
- Purdue finishes the month of November having won 21 straight games during the month. It will take a 21-game winning in the month of November into next season.
- Matt Painter won his 420th game at Purdue, now needing just one win to tie Illinois' Lou Henson for fourth on the Big Ten's all-time victories list (421).
- Purdue is now 65-14 (.823) since the start of the 2021-22 season.
- Purdue has now won 58 straight games when shooting at least 50.0 percent from the field, 40.0 percent from 3-point range and 70.0 percent from the free throw line, dating to March 3, 2004.
- Purdue has won 53 straight games when scoring 80 or more points, dating to a Dec. 15, 2018, loss to Notre Dame.
- Purdue is 60-5 since the start of the 2017-18 season when making 10 or more 3-pointer in a game, winning 30 straight games.
- Purdue became the first Big Ten team since at least the 2010-11 season to make 13, 3-pointers and attempt 40 free throws in a game. Purdue is the second team to do it nationally since Nov. 7, 2022, and just the third team to do that since the 2018-19 season. Purdue has never done that previously in school history.
- Purdue is now 23-of-46 (.500) from 3-point range in the last two games.
- Purdue had five players in double figures for the first time since Dec. 4, 2022, vs. Minnesota.
- Braden Smith narrowly missed a triple-double with 19 points, 10 assists and 9 rebounds in just 26 minutes. He is the first Purdue player with two points-assists double-doubles in the same season since Troy Lewis in the 1987-88 season. Smith is the first player with at least 19 points and 10 assists in the same game since Troy Lewis had 22 points and 14 assists against Indiana on Feb. 21, 1988.
- Smith is now averaging 13.0 points, 6.7 assists and 5.9 rebounds per game, while shooting 51.5 percent from the field.
- Zach Edey scored in double-figures for the 58th straight game with 15 points, 6 rebounds and 3 blocks in just 21 minutes. He attempted just four field goals, making all of them.
- Trey Kaufman-Renn scored a season-high 12 points with five rebounds in just 17 minutes.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue coach Matt Painter understood Braden Smith was chasing history Tuesday night.
He just wasn't going to let it happen by running up the stats.
For the second time this season, Smith flirted with posting the second triple-double in the Boilermakers' storied history, settling instead for leading newly-minted No. 1 Purdue to a 99-67 rout over Texas Southern.
Smith finished with 19 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds after having one board added with a postgame scoring change. Joe Barry Carroll, a No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, is the only Purdue player to achieve the feat, which came in December 1977.
"There's nothing wrong with it if he's still in the game," Painter said. "But once you take somebody out, you don't cheat the game. You don't put him back in to get a record, which is really cool, right? I want him to get it, but not at the expense of the other coach."
Just 2 1/2 weeks ago, Smith joked he was upset he didn't get his shot at a triple-double when he had 11 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds in a blowout win over Morehead State.
This time, he even faked putting himself back in the game, a move that made Painter chuckle.
Zach Edey added 15 points and six rebounds as the Boilermakers (7-0) extended the nation's longest regular-season winning streak against non-conference opponents to 31 games. Purdue was playing for the first time since ascending to No. 1 in the nation Monday after taking home the Maui Invitational title by winning three games in three days against teams ranked among the top 11 last week.
The Tigers (0-7) were led by Zytarious Mortle with 25 points and six rebounds. Preseason conference player of the year P.J. Henry scored 10.
Texas Southern has dropped eight straight, including last season's NCAA Tournament loss to the same Fairleigh Dickinson team that upset top-seeded Purdue a few days later.
But containing Edey — and Smith — proved too difficult.
"He's tough on the offensive end of the floor, and he's gritty on the defensive end," Tigers coach Johnny Jones said of Smith. "I think he has almost like a football toughness about him."
Purdue scored the first 13 points before Texas Southern managed to fight back within 31-24 late in the first half. But after scoring the final five points to take a 44-29 lead at the break, the Boilermakers went on a 14-0 run early in the second to build a 60-33 lead.
BIG PICTURE
Texas Southern: Yes, the team went winless on its opening seven-game road trip. But the three-time defending Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament champs played Arizona State, Virginia, Creighton and Purdue. And the Tigers' last three foes were all NCAA Tournament teams last March. Clearly, better days lie ahead for the league's preseason favorite.
Purdue: Painter's team didn't play its best half after returning from Hawaii, but the Boilermakers didn't need to. They kept their school-record winning streak against non-league foes intact by completing their third straight undefeated November.
UP NEXT
Texas Southern: Doesn't play again until Dec. 16 against North Carolina A&T in Las Vegas.
Purdue: Plays at Big Ten foe Northwestern on Friday, where the Boilermakers lost in February the last time they were ranked No. 1.