- The No. 13-ranked Purdue basketball team improved to 3-0 with a 92-84 win over the defending Ivy League champion Yale in front of 14,876 fans at Mackey Arena.
- Purdue is now at least 3-0 for the fourth straight season after starting 8-0 (2021-22), 13-0 (2022-23) and 7-0 (2023-24) in the previous three seasons.
- Purdue won its 38th straight regular-season, non-conference game, good for the fifth-longest streak in NCAA history. The only streaks longer are Syracuse (52; 2008-12), North Carolina (43; 2006-09), Illinois (40; 2003-06) and Arizona (39; 2011-14).
- Purdue's 20-game home winning streak is now the fourth-longest active streak in the country.
- Purdue has won 24 straight games in the month of November.
- Since the start of the 2021-22 season, Purdue is now 95-19 overall.
- Purdue has now won 122 straight games when scoring 90 points, spanning 13,501 days to its last loss (Nov. 24, 1987 vs. Iowa State).
- Purdue has won 62 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, last losing on March 3, 2004. Purdue shot 53.8 percent from the field, 47.8 percent from 3-point range and 78.1 percent from the free throw lne.
- Braden Smith scored 22 points with nine rebounds, six assists and five steals. He is the first Big Ten player in the last 20 years to reach those marks in a game.
- For his career in 77 games, Smith has 853 points, 473 assists and 392 rebounds.
- This season, Smith is averaging 15.0 points, 9.3 assists, 6.3 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game.
- Purdue's big three of Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kaufman-Renn combined for 53 of Purdue's 92 points.
- In three games this season, Purdue is shooting 31-of-71 (.437) from 3-point range after going 11-of-23 against Yale. The Boilermakers finished last year ranked 2nd in the country in 3-point percentage, and comparatively speaking, shot 31-of-67 (.463) in the first three games a year ago.
- Fletcher Loyer went 2-of-2 from 3-point range against Yale and is now 9-of-12 (.750) on the season. Dating to March 1 a year ago, Loyer is 28-of-45 (.622) from 3-point range.
- C.J. Cox set a season high with 12 points off the bench.
- Purdue's bench accounted for 30 points.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Braden Smith finished with 22 points, nine rebounds and six assists Monday night and Trey Kaufman-Renn added 17 points to lead No. 13 Purdue past Yale 92-84.
The Boilermakers (3-0) extended their home winning streak to 20, the fourth-longest streak in Mackey Arena history. They've also won 24 consecutive November games and still have not lost a regular-season non-conference game since December 2020.
John Poulakidas scored 23 points and made five 3-pointers to lead Yale (1-2). Samson Aletan had a career high 14 points and seven rebounds for the defending Ivy League champs.
Purdue played without 7-foot-4 freshman Daniel Jacobsen, who fractured his right tibia in his second career start Friday. He is scheduled to have surgery Wednesday and could miss the rest of this season.
Takeaways
Yale: The Bulldogs managed to withstand Purdue's size and speed, but the perimeter struggles were costly. Eventually, Yale ran out of gas. But this is a team that could win another conference crown.
Purdue: Coach Matt Painter's squad continues to dominate the season's first month, even against potential NCAA Tournament teams. The Boilermakers must play much cleaner basketball when they face tougher foes, a challenge that begins in this weekend.
Key moment
Camden Heide made two 3s, forced a turnover and saw his effort to snag an offensive rebound lead to a missed layup for Yale. Smith used that miss to set up a dunk by Myles Colvin that gave Purdue a 72-60 lead with 7:30 to go.