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Here's a breakdown of the Purdue Football - Taylor Swift album curse.

She released a new album today.

Since 2009, only 4 players in the NCAA have had a season of averaging 17 points, 12 rebounds, and 2 assists while shooting 50% from the field.

These are them.

Purdue has been a top-4 seed now in 8 straight NCAA tournaments. That's twice the next closest team.

Spent some time in #RStats and Shiny putting together some Purdue basketball fun things.

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Previous High Points: 120 (UNC-Asheville vs. N. Florida x2)

Previous High Percentage: 78.9% (Purdue vs. Minnesota - 112/142)

Purdue - 75
▪️Smith - 31 (Westfield, IN)
▪️TKR - 25 (Sellersburg, IN)
▪️Furst - 10 (Ft. Wayne, IN)
▪️Loyer - 9 (Ft. Wayne, IN)

Iowa - 61
▪️Dix - 27 (Council Bluffs, IA)
▪️Sandfort - 23 (Waukee, IA)
▪️Sandfort - 7 (Waukee, IA)
▪️Brauns - 4 (Iowa City, IA)

In last night's Purdue-Iowa game, 136 of the 171 total points were scored by in-state players for each team.

This is both the highest number of in-state points scored in a single game and the highest percentage (79.5%) of points scored by in-state players this season.

In the AP Poll, teams get points based on how high voters rank them each week.

After today's poll, Purdue now has the most AP Poll points since the start of the 2021-22 season - averaging 1,206.8 points per poll

Purdue's last 4 losses at home have been:

▪️ OSU (1/21/25)
▪️ IU (2/25/23)
▪️ Rutgers (1/2/23)
▪️ Wisconsin (1/3/22)

Therefore, it has been 4 years to the day since Purdue last lost in Mackey to a team whose primary color was not some shade of red (Michigan - 1/22/21)

massive Dylan fan. bummed he couldn't put together one of his magic runs for the finale like he did dessert week.

Fun stat from @boilerball.bsky.social game notes this past week. Purdue is 56-1 in their last 57 games when recording a scoring run of at least 10-0 or more.

Here are all 56 of those runs in case you want to go find any on YouTube.

Today's starting lineup - with an average height of 6' 5" - is the shortest starting lineup for Purdue since February 22, 2018 vs. Illinois.

That lineup of Thompson, C. Edwards, Eifert, Mathias, and Haas had an average height of 6' 4.6"

CJ Cox needed just 52 seconds to make three 3-pointers against Alabama Friday night. That's the fastest stretch for a Purdue player to do that in the last 15 seasons.

Some other memorable games on this list.

Purdue riding the nation's 2nd longest November win streak heading into tonight's matchup with Alabama.

The Boilermakers are underdogs tonight - but in matchups during this streak where they weren't the favorite (Duke + Gonzaga in 2022), they won both by 18+ points.