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Fox Sports
28-03-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Purdue Boilermakers vs. Houston Cougars - March 28, 2025
Purdue vs Houston Tomorrow at 2:09 AM on TBS #1 Houston will need to slow down Kaufman-Renn (22 Pts, 15 Reb, 3 Ast in last game) as they face #4 Purdue in Midwest Sweet 16
Yahoo
22-03-2025
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- Yahoo
March Madness 2025: No. 5 Purdue makes easy work of No. 12 McNeese to advance to Sweet 16
Purdue is heading to the Sweet 16 again. The No. 4 Boilermakers jumped out to a big lead over No. 12 McNeese in the first half on the way to a 76-62 win. It wasn't nearly as pretty in the second half, but Purdue built itself so much of a cushion in the first 20 minutes that its struggles in the final 20 minutes didn't matter. Purdue led 38-20 at the break as McNeese struggled on both ends of the floor. The Cowboys shot just 31% from the field, got out-rebounded by 10 and Purdue players consistently got great looks behind the arc and by the basket. For a brief moment, it looked like the Cowboys were going to score fewer than 20 points in the half a game after Clemson had just 13 against McNeese on Thursday. The second half wasn't much better, even if Purdue did all it could to give McNeese a chance to get back into the game. The Boilermakers went over six minutes without a field goal until a layup by Trey Kaufman-Renn with 9:49 to go. But McNeese had cut just three points from Purdue's lead during that span thanks to a crucial set of technical fouls. With the Cowboys trailing 48-28, Christian Shumate got called for a foul in the paint on Kaufman-Renn. That led to McNeese coach Will Wade getting a technical ahead of the TV timeout and Shumate got a technical himself as he walked to the bench. Purdue made five of the ensuing six free throws to push the lead to 25 and effectively end the game. Kaufman-Renn finished with a game-high 22 points and 15 rebounds. McNeese's loss means No. 11 Drake is the only double-digit seed remaining in the men's NCAA tournament. The Bulldogs play No. 3 Texas Tech later Saturday for the chance to go to the Sweet 16. After all 16 top-four seeds won their first-round games for the first time since 2017, there's a very strong chance there will be no double-digit seeds advancing past the first weekend of the 2025 tournament. The game is the last one for Wade as McNeese's coach. The ex-LSU coach is set to be announced as the new NC State coach in the coming days after the school fired Kevin Keatts at the end of the season. The Wolfpack made a coaching change just a year after a surprise run to the Final Four. Wade was transparent about his conversations with NC State before the NCAA tournament and they clearly were no distraction against Clemson. But the Cowboys simply didn't have the defensive intensity on Saturday that they did in the first round. Purdue, meanwhile, is back in the Sweet 16 for the second straight season after becoming just the second No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed in 2023. The Boilermakers bounced back to make it to the national title game in 2024, and they are now two wins away from another Final Four appearance.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
March Madness 2025: No. 5 Purdue makes easy work of No. 12 McNeese in the first half to advance to Sweet 16
Purdue is heading to the Sweet 16 again. The No. 4 Boilermakers jumped out to a big lead over No. 12 McNeese in the first half on the way to a 76-62 win. It wasn't nearly as pretty in the second half, but Purdue built itself so much of a cushion in the first 20 minutes that its struggles in the final 20 minutes didn't matter. Purdue led 38-20 at the break as McNeese struggled on both ends of the floor. The Cowboys shot just 31% from the field, got out-rebounded by 10 and Purdue players consistently got great looks behind the arc and by the basket. For a brief moment, it looked like the Cowboys were going to score fewer than 20 points in the half a game after Clemson had just 13 against McNeese on Thursday. The second half wasn't much better, even if Purdue did all it could to give McNeese a chance to get back into the game. The Boilermakers went over six minutes without a field goal until a layup by Trey Kaufman-Renn with 9:49 to go. But McNeese had cut just three points from Purdue's lead during that span thanks to a crucial set of technical fouls. With the Cowboys trailing 48-28, Christian Shumate got called for a foul in the paint on Kaufman-Renn. That led to McNeese coach Will Wade getting a technical ahead of the TV timeout and Shumate got a technical himself as he walked to the bench. Purdue made five of the ensuing six free throws to push the lead to 25 and effectively end the game. Kaufman-Renn finished with a game-high 22 points and 15 rebounds. McNeese's loss means No. 11 Drake is the only double-digit seed remaining in the men's NCAA tournament. The Bulldogs play No. 3 Texas Tech later Saturday for the chance to go to the Sweet 16. After all 16 top-four seeds won their first-round games for the first time since 2017, there's a very strong chance there will be no double-digit seeds advancing past the first weekend of the 2025 tournament. The game is the last one for Wade as McNeese's coach. The ex-LSU coach is set to be announced as the new NC State coach in the coming days after the school fired Kevin Keatts at the end of the season. The Wolfpack made a coaching change just a year after a surprise run to the Final Four. Wade was transparent about his conversations with NC State before the NCAA tournament and they clearly were no distraction against Clemson. But the Cowboys simply didn't have the defensive intensity on Saturday as they did in the first round. Purdue, meanwhile, is back in the Sweet 16 for the second straight season after becoming just the second No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed in 2023. The Boilermakers bounced back to make it to the national title game in 2024, and are now two wins away from another Final Four appearance.
Boston Globe
20-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Trey Kaufman-Renn scores 21 to help Purdue hold off High Point in in Providence opener of the NCAA Tournament
The game was tight throughout the first half before Purdue used a 17-7 surge to take a 37-27 halftime lead. Advertisement The angles are NASTY 😮💨 — NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) High Point cut a 10-point halftime deficit to 59-56 on a dunk by Juslin Bodo Bodo with 7:47 left. But Kaufman-Renn slowed High Point's surge with a tough fadeaway jumper — part of a 7-0 spurt for the Boilermakers. 'The game was so back and forth the entire time and I think me and Trey and all these other guys who have been through it, we understand how to keep our composure and stay with the game,' Smith said. Boilermakers coach Matt Painter said the leadership of his veteran players was key. 'You get into trouble when you don't move into the next play,' Painter said. 'We all get caught into it. The crowd gets into it or it gets to be a close game, you can still do your job.' The Boilermakers did most of their damage underneath the basket. They owned a 45-24 rebounding edge and outscored the Panthers 38-22 in the paint.
Washington Post
14-03-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Trey Kaufman-Renn scores 30 and No. 20 Purdue beats USC 76-71 in Big Ten Tournament
INDIANAPOLIS — Trey Kaufman-Renn matched a career high with 30 points, including the go-ahead free throws with 28 seconds left, and No. 20 Purdue scored the final five points to beat Southern California 76-71 on Thursday night in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament. The sixth-seeded Boilermakers (22-10) trailed by 10 points in the first half, but they tied it by halftime and emerged from a back-and-forth second half thanks largely to Kaufman-Renn, who finished 12 of 20 from the field and 6 of 11 from the free-throw line.
