Purdue beats IU in showcase to Indiana High School Basketball

On February 1, 2025By Littum

Three Mr. Basketball winners and three other top-three finishers played in another classic for the rivalry.
Braden Smith and Anthony Leal went head-to-head all the game and it was violent.

This was the braden Smith from Purdue and Anthony Leal of Indiana Go Head to Head in most of 40 minutes, a former Indystar Mr. Basketball winner against another. It started RU, Smith Decking Leal in the second minute, his first bad, and ended Rough: Leal Decking Smith in the 39th minute of his fifth and last mistake. In between, Leal Smith and Smith attacked Leal, and all hell broke loose inside the MacKey Arena during the 220 meeting in Purdue and Indiana Basketball team.

No. 10 Purdue won this one, 81-76, suggesting that Indiana lost. Not sure of that. This was probably the finest moment of the season for the IU -Basketball program – it has not been the biggest of seasons – and it was definitely the finest moment of the year of basketball in the state of Indiana, with all these state kids walking it on Friday night In front of 14,876 at the Mackey Arena and a nationwide audience at Fox.

A Third Mr. Basketball winner was in this game, Purdues Caleb Furst-He won the award of Fort Waynes Blackhawk Christian in 2021, between Bloomington South’s Leal (’20) and Westfields Smith (’22)-together with two runners-up (Purdues trey Kaufman- Renn for Silver Creek in 2021 and Fletcher Loyer at Homestead in ’22) and a finisher in third place (IU’s Trey Galloway at Culver Academy in 2020). These four players combined to 52 points, led by 23 for Kaufman-Renn and 15 per year. Piece for Loys and Galloway.

Somehow IU Senior Luke Goode did not place in the top five of Mr. The Basketball vote in 2020, despite an average of 19.3 ppg on Homestead, perhaps because one of his teammates was Loyery, an average of 26.9 ppg that season. Whatever was the case, Goode scored 13 points Friday night.

This was the game of the year for Indiana, the state, and I was aware that other players participated. Ius Mackenzie Mgbako led all scorers with 25 points. Teammate Oumar Ballo had 14 points and a game-high eight rebounds. They were amazing, but one evening when Purdue (16-5, 8-2 Big Ten) won, and I refuse to say the words “Indiana Lost”-Won’t say it without the quotation of the story was anyway history was all these children from Indiana.

Therefore, although the headline will not say that, I think it: Purdue beat IU, and Indiana also won Friday night.

The state, people. The state.

Indiana Basketball’s Trey Galloway plays away from the assembly hall

Will you be happy for someone? Be happy with IU’s Trey Galloway, and no, not because he got a haircut. It was all the furious Friday night, apparently, with Fox’s Jason Benetti and Robbie Hummel who commented on her new look – away the long brown locks are replaced by some tighter – and social media that takes it from there. Because, you know. Social media.

Be fond of Galloway because he was not on the enemy territory, which means, the assembly hall. The poor young man, one of the best kids on Campus, is just torn by the home crowd in Bloomington. Ironically, really, because they booing what so many of them are not: a child from Indiana. By iu, the Student population hair More children outside state limits (51% is out-of-state or international) than within (49%).

It’s not a huge difference, but it makes you wonder who booing galloway – and why – every time Hoosiers play inside the assembly hall. Get free of hatred at home, Galloway turned one of his best matches of the year in West Lafayette: 15 points, five assists.

Hated at home has been even more aimed at IU coach Mike Woodson, whose 14-8 teams (5-6 Big Ten) lost for the fifth time in six games. Woodson’s profile is so bleak, the biggest cheer of first name came when the Pa ad honor of the Mackey Arena introduced the coach of Indiana.

Woodson seems forgetful to the outside noise and you hope the same for Galloway. However, it was tough for him early Friday night when Galloway committed the turnover he tends to commit – that kind of when he drives into traffic and leaves his feet and throws the ball for someone, someone. Several times than it wasn’t Smith who caught the pass from Galloway.

In the second half, Galloway realized he couldn’t be stopped by Boilermakers’ defender in front of him, generally Gicarri Harris. Galloway repeatedly drove into the field past Harris and ended over Kaufman-Renn and scored six of IU’s last 11 points (MGBAKO had the other five). And afterwards, Purdue trained Matt Matt Painter, where unstoppable the child from the Culver Academy had been.

“We were lucky that Trey Galloway didn’t have the ball in his hands there at the end,” Painter told journalists afterwards. “Let’s be honest about it.”

He actually did, but that wasn’t what the painter meant. The painter said: If this game had come down to Galloway vs. A Purdue defender (or two), Purdue wouldn’t win it. As it was, at Hoosiers’ last game-a baseball pass from under their own goal, down 3 with 3.3 seconds back-fled-fled galloways hoof in the hands of Kaufman-Renn, who was buried and hit two free kicks to the final margin.

It left Galloway with six revenue, but he was mostly fabulous this game. Without him, IU loses with 15.

The same goes for Leal, who scored only six points, but was always the adult in space: five rebounds, four assists, hard defense on Purdue’s best player, Smith.

That’s true, Smith ended with 24 points and seven assists, but he also had six revenue – and that was almost everything Leal. In a memorable miserable stretch of Smith, he committed four revenue in less than four minutes, with Leal harassing him every step. That was the stretch as Hoosiers rose from a deficit of 58-51 and scored 12 consecutive points for a 63-58 lead with 7½ minutes left.

Purdue came back as you know (and now leads the series 128-92, by the way). Boilermakers of course won the game. So who led the Purdue -prosecution against Hoosiers?

Indiana did.

The state, people. The state.

Purdue Basketball’s Braden Smith: Everybody’s All-American

Will you be amazed at someone? Get amazed at Braden Smith, ignored by any high larger program in the State-Inclusive it in Bloomington-to Purdues Matt Painter decided: What the heck.

Now is a junior, Smith will definitely be a first team of all-American and could be the big ten player of the year, and is in the process of becoming the fifth NCAA men’s player since 1979 to average 15 points, 8 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 2 steal.

The other four? Magic Johnson, Kenny Anderson, Gary Payton and Jason Kidd.

Smith put the 24 points and seven assists – and balanced the six revenue with six steals – despite clinging his right hand early in the game. He was defended by Leal, because he was of course and drove pick-and-roll with Kaufman-Renn. But when Smith tried to deliver his patented pocket pass, Leal expected it and put his hand there and deflected the ball for a steal. Smith spent the next several minutes shaking his right hand out.

Never got out of the game. Not all night.

And after his miserable stretch midway through the second half-out of these four turnover, he was 0 for 2 from the floor, including an MGBAKO block leading to a 3-pointer at the other end of MGBAKO SMITH had four points, four assists And two steals when Boilermakers finished the game on a 20-9 race.

Smith had help, mainly from other Hoosiers, are, others natives in the state of Indiana. Kaufman-Renn scored six points in the last five minutes and had the steal of Galloway’s last-ditch baseball pass. Loyer, a marker who was out of goal for most of the first 37½ minutes-in-laws six of its first nine shot-scored five points in the last 2½ minutes: a three-point game wiped out IU’s 70-69 lead and Two free throws with 3.3 seconds left that created IU’s final desperation.

The time and score – down three, only 3.3 seconds left – meant Galloway threw the ball in from baseline and did not attack the Purdue defense from the perimeter. Painter’s right: If the ball was in Galloway’s hands at the other end, it went in the basket. And Galloway, just as tired afterwards, rubbed his hand through his short hair and tried to explain what it feels like to lose this game, in this state, in this building.

“It’s very frustrating – we’re right there.” he said. “We will win in the worst way as possible.”

Almost won, Indiana.

And won, Indiana.

The state, people. The state.

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