GAMEDAY INFORMATION -- CHARITY EXHIBITION
[14] Purdue (0-0) at [15] Creighton (0-0)
8 p.m. ET | Omaha, Nebraska
CHI Health Center Omaha (17,560)
TELEVISION: Neb. Public Media ($6.99; Larry Punteney, Nick Bahe)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• No. 14-ranked Purdue "unofficially" tips off the 2024-25 season on Saturday night, when it travels to No. 15-ranked Creighton for a charity exhibition game benefiting the United Way of the Midlands Disaster Relief Fund. Funds from Saturday's contest will go to victims of devastating tornadoes that hit Omaha and the surrounding areas in late April.
• It marks the second straight year that Purdue will play a charity exhibition game for victims of violent tornadoes after Arkansas edged the Boilermakers in Fayetteville last October, 81-77, in overtime.
• Saturday's contest marks a return to Omaha for assistant coach Paul Lusk, who served on Greg McDermott's staff with the Bluejays for three seasons from 2018-19 to 2020-21. His son, Jack, is a 2023 graduate of Elkhorn North High School.
• Matt Painter and Greg McDermott coached against each other in 2003-04, when Painter was the head coach at Southern Illinois and McDermott was at Northern Iowa. The two teams split the regular season meeting with McDermott's Panthers topping Southern Illinois 68-52 in the regular-season finale, denying Painter a perfect season in Missouri Valley Conference play. Both teams reached the NCAA Tournament that season, falling in their opening-round games.
• McDermott (474) and Painter (472) have combined for 946 career wins in 43 combined seasons -- an average of 22.0 wins per season. The two were in the same bracket last season in the Midwest Region in Detroit.
• The Boilermakers open the 2024-25 campaign ranked No. 14 in the AP Top 25 preseason poll released Oct. 14.
• The Boilermakers have now been ranked in the preseason AP Top 25 poll in eight of the last 10 preseason polls dating to the 2015-16 season. The two seasons they weren't ranked came in 2022-23 (29-6 record; No. 1 seed) and 2020-21 (18-10 record; No. 4 seed).
• The preseason poll marks the first time since the Nov. 21, 2022 (ranked 24th) that Purdue hasn't been ranked in the AP top 5, ending a streak of 37 straight polls ranked in the top 5. Purdue was ranked in the top 3 in 32-of-37 of those polls. The 37 straight weeks in the top 5 was the third-longest streak in Big Ten history (41 by Ohio State, 1960-63; 38 by Indiana, 1975-77).
• Purdue has been ranked in 39 straight AP Top 25 polls, the sixth-longest active streak in the country and the third longest in school history.
• Purdue is looking to become the first team to win three straight outright Big Ten titles since the Boilermakers did it in 1994-96. Ohio State also accomplished the feat in 1960-62 as the only programs to record an outright "threepeat".
• Purdue's 58 wins over the last two seasons are the most in school history and the sixth most in the country (Houston, Kansas, Arizona, Gonzaga, Duke). Purdue needs just 25 wins this season to tie the school record for the most wins in a three-year span (83; 2016-17-18).
• The Boilermakers have won 35 straight regular-season, non-conference games, dating to a Dec. 8, 2020, setback at Miami, Fla. The streak is the longest in the country by 19 games (Houston - 16). The 35-game streak is the ninth-longest streak in NCAA history and just three programs have streaks of 40 or more. During the streak, Purdue has defeated seven teams ranked in the AP top 10.
• Purdue, Duke, Gonzaga and Houston are the only programs in America to have made at least a Sweet 16, Elite 8 and Final Four in the last five NCAA Tournaments. Purdue reached the Sweet 16 in 2022, the Elite 8 in 2019 and the Final Four in 2024.
• Matt Painter ranks fifth on the Big Ten's list for career wins with 447, trailing only Tom Izzo (707), Bob Knight (662) and Gene Keady (512) in Big Ten history. On the Big Ten games-only chart, Painter is fifth (226 wins), needing two wins to tie Hall of Famer, Ward "Piggy" Lambert of Purdue with 228 victories.
[14] Purdue (0-0) at [15] Creighton (0-0)
8 p.m. ET | Omaha, Nebraska
CHI Health Center Omaha (17,560)
TELEVISION: Neb. Public Media ($6.99; Larry Punteney, Nick Bahe)
RADIO: Purdue Global Radio Network (Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell)
THE NOTES TO KNOW
• No. 14-ranked Purdue "unofficially" tips off the 2024-25 season on Saturday night, when it travels to No. 15-ranked Creighton for a charity exhibition game benefiting the United Way of the Midlands Disaster Relief Fund. Funds from Saturday's contest will go to victims of devastating tornadoes that hit Omaha and the surrounding areas in late April.
• It marks the second straight year that Purdue will play a charity exhibition game for victims of violent tornadoes after Arkansas edged the Boilermakers in Fayetteville last October, 81-77, in overtime.
• Saturday's contest marks a return to Omaha for assistant coach Paul Lusk, who served on Greg McDermott's staff with the Bluejays for three seasons from 2018-19 to 2020-21. His son, Jack, is a 2023 graduate of Elkhorn North High School.
• Matt Painter and Greg McDermott coached against each other in 2003-04, when Painter was the head coach at Southern Illinois and McDermott was at Northern Iowa. The two teams split the regular season meeting with McDermott's Panthers topping Southern Illinois 68-52 in the regular-season finale, denying Painter a perfect season in Missouri Valley Conference play. Both teams reached the NCAA Tournament that season, falling in their opening-round games.
• McDermott (474) and Painter (472) have combined for 946 career wins in 43 combined seasons -- an average of 22.0 wins per season. The two were in the same bracket last season in the Midwest Region in Detroit.
• The Boilermakers open the 2024-25 campaign ranked No. 14 in the AP Top 25 preseason poll released Oct. 14.
• The Boilermakers have now been ranked in the preseason AP Top 25 poll in eight of the last 10 preseason polls dating to the 2015-16 season. The two seasons they weren't ranked came in 2022-23 (29-6 record; No. 1 seed) and 2020-21 (18-10 record; No. 4 seed).
• The preseason poll marks the first time since the Nov. 21, 2022 (ranked 24th) that Purdue hasn't been ranked in the AP top 5, ending a streak of 37 straight polls ranked in the top 5. Purdue was ranked in the top 3 in 32-of-37 of those polls. The 37 straight weeks in the top 5 was the third-longest streak in Big Ten history (41 by Ohio State, 1960-63; 38 by Indiana, 1975-77).
• Purdue has been ranked in 39 straight AP Top 25 polls, the sixth-longest active streak in the country and the third longest in school history.
• Purdue is looking to become the first team to win three straight outright Big Ten titles since the Boilermakers did it in 1994-96. Ohio State also accomplished the feat in 1960-62 as the only programs to record an outright "threepeat".
• Purdue's 58 wins over the last two seasons are the most in school history and the sixth most in the country (Houston, Kansas, Arizona, Gonzaga, Duke). Purdue needs just 25 wins this season to tie the school record for the most wins in a three-year span (83; 2016-17-18).
• The Boilermakers have won 35 straight regular-season, non-conference games, dating to a Dec. 8, 2020, setback at Miami, Fla. The streak is the longest in the country by 19 games (Houston - 16). The 35-game streak is the ninth-longest streak in NCAA history and just three programs have streaks of 40 or more. During the streak, Purdue has defeated seven teams ranked in the AP top 10.
• Purdue, Duke, Gonzaga and Houston are the only programs in America to have made at least a Sweet 16, Elite 8 and Final Four in the last five NCAA Tournaments. Purdue reached the Sweet 16 in 2022, the Elite 8 in 2019 and the Final Four in 2024.
• Matt Painter ranks fifth on the Big Ten's list for career wins with 447, trailing only Tom Izzo (707), Bob Knight (662) and Gene Keady (512) in Big Ten history. On the Big Ten games-only chart, Painter is fifth (226 wins), needing two wins to tie Hall of Famer, Ward "Piggy" Lambert of Purdue with 228 victories.