Smith, Kaufman-Renn Tabbed to CBS Sports All-America Teams

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Consensus first-team All-American Braden Smith and first-team All-Big Ten performer Trey Kaufman-Renn were named to the CBS Sports All-America teams, the organization announced on Wednesday.
 
Smith is joined by Duke's Cooper Flagg, Auburn's Johni Broome, Texas Tech's J.T. Toppin and Florida's Walter Clayton Jr., on the first team, while Kaufman-Renn was joined by Villanova's Eric Dixon, Houston's L.J. Cryer, St. John's R.J. Luis and Tennessee's Zakai Ziegler.  
 
Purdue was the only team with two players mentioned on the three teams. Of the 15 players listed, only six could return in the 2025-26 season (Flagg, Smith, Toppin, P.J. Haggerty, Luis, Kaufman-Renn), although Flagg is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft.
 
Smith has previously been named a first-team All American by the four entities that make up consensus honors – The Sporting News, The Associated Press, the USBWA and the NABC, as well as one of four finalists for the Naismith Award. Kaufman-Renn was an honorable mention by the Associated Press.
 
The CBS Sports All-America team is not one of the four entities used for All-America status, therefore Kaufman-Renn is not officially an All-American.
 
The Boilermakers finished with a 24-12 overall record and reached the Sweet 16. Next year's Boilermaker squad is expected to be ranked high when the "way-too-early" top-25 polls come out next week.
 
CBS Sports First-Team All-American – Braden Smith, Junior, Guard

• A finalist for the Wooden Award, Smith is considered the top point guard in the country.
• Consensus first-team All-American, being named to the first team by the Sporting News, the Associated Press, the USBWA, the NABC as well as a Naismith Trophy finalist.
• Named the Big Ten Player of the Year after being selected as the preseason Player of the Year.
• Averaged 15.8 points, 8.7 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game, but saw his averages increase to 17.4 points, 8.9 assists and 4.6 rebounds during Big Ten play.
• Set the Big Ten record for assists in conference play only with 175, smashing the previous record set by Michigan State's Cassius Winston (157) by 18 assists – almost a full assist per game.
• Is the second player in NCAA history to record at least 550 points, 300 assists and 150 rebounds in a season (Murray State's Ja Morant – 2018-19). Is the only player to add at least 75 steals to the list.
• With 15 assists against Houston in the Sweet 16 last Friday, Smith is the only player in NCAA Tournament history to have two games of at least 15 assists. Both came in the Sweet 16 (2024 – Gonzaga; 2025 – Houston).
• Became the second player in Big Ten history, joining Michigan State's Magic Johnson, to register 450 points, 250 assists, 125 rebounds and 60 steals in a season. Smith has reached those numbers in each of the last two seasons.
• Became the school's career assists leader, now with 758 assists in just 110 career games. Smith already ranks fourth on the Big Ten's career assists list, despite playing three seasons.
• Became the first player since California's Jason Kidd (1993-94) to average at least 15.0 points, 8.5 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game, and only the third player in NCAA history (Kidd, Loyola Marymount's Terrell Lowery – 1990-91).
• Smith's 758 assists (and counting) are the third most for a player in NCAA history by the end of his junior season (Duke's Bobby Hurley; Oakland's Kay Felder). He is the only player in NCAA history with 1,300 points, 700 assists and 500 rebounds in his first three seasons.
• Recorded four 20-point, 10-assist games this season. Prior to this year, Purdue had two 20-point, 10-assist games in school history – the last one coming in the 1987-88 season.
• His nine point-assist double-doubles are the third most for a high-major player in the last 20 seasons (14 – Oklahoma's Trae Young, 2018; 10 – Kansas State's Markquis Nowell, 2023).
• Smith has posted two games of 30 or more points this season (34 vs. Toledo; 31 vs. Iowa).
• Has 13 games of 10 or more assists this season, and 23 games of 10 or more assists for his career. His 22 career games of 10 or more assists are the most in Big Ten history. The 22, 10-assist games are the fourth most by a player in his junior season or younger in the last 20 years (Kay Felder – 32; Kendall Marshall – 23; Ja Morant – 23).
• Enters his senior season needing just 125 points and 242 assists to become the first player in NCAA history with 1,500 points, 1,000 assists and 500 rebounds for his career. He needs 318 assists to tie Bobby Hurley for the NCAA all-time assists record with 1,076.

 
CBS Sports Third-Team All-American – Trey Kaufman-Renn, Junior, Forward

• Kaufman-Renn picks up his first "unofficial" All-American honor, being named third-team All-American by CBS Sports.
• Named a unanimous first-team All-Big Ten honoree after averaging 20.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game while shooting 59.5 percent from the field.
• Became the 29th player in NCAA history to average at least 20 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and shoot 59 percent from the field.
• Was just the third Big Ten player in league history to reach those marks (1998 – Evan Eschmeyer, Northwestern; 2024 – Zach Edey, Purdue).
• Was one of two players nationally in 2024-25 to average at least 15 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists and shoot 59.0 percent from the field (South Dakota State's Oscar Cluff).
• Led the country in field goals made (292), becoming the second straight Boilermaker to lead the country in field goals made (336 - Zach Edey, 2024).  
• Scored in double-figures in 35 of 36 games and surpassed 20 points 19 times, including a pair of 30-point games against Wisconsin and USC.
• Had 14 of his 19, 20-point games in the last 18 games of the season.
• Ended his year ranked 10th in points in a season by a Purdue player with 723.
• His 13.7 point scoring increase from last season to this season was the second-highest in the country and highest in school history.