What to expect: Indiana in Purdue – inside the hall

Indiana is back on the road Friday night to play rival Purdue in Primetime in MacKey Arena. Boilermakers is 16-5 and a challenger to the Big Ten title of 8-2.

Friday’s game overturns at 1 p.m. 20 one on fox:

Indiana’s 20-game Big Ten-Schedule has reached its most difficult time. The Hoosians begin a six-game stretch on Friday night in West Lafayette against teams in the top half of the league.

Up First is Purdue, which has not skipped a blow in the Edey era after Zach. Boilermakers is in the thick of the Big Ten Title race and has a couple of potential all-BIG Ten first-team players in Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn. After a fantastic 73-70 loss in the Mackey Arena to Ohio State on January 21, rebound Purdue with a 27-point dismantling of Michigan three days later.

Boilermakers works for a whole week when Friday’s game tips against Hoosiers.

Meet the Kogmakers

Now in his 20th season as Purdue’s main coach, Matt Painter has built a program that claims in the Big Ten almost every season. Last spring, the painter broke through in the NCAA tournament with a national championship game appearance. He has also won five Big Ten-Season titles and two championships in conference tournament.

The departure of a two-time national player of the year would put most programs back. Not Purdue. Mixing a solid recurring core with Savvy High School recruitment has painter and Boilermakers right back in the mixture to another league crone.

Kaufman-Renn has taken a significant leap in his red shirt junior season after a complementary role on last season’s national runner-up. The Silver Creek product has the highest degree of use in the Big Ten at the halfway point of the conference plan. His 18.1 points per Games lead the team and he shoots 59.5 percent off the field. He leads Purdue in rebounding with 6.5 per day. Battle and is the sixth best offensive rebounder at the conference. Kaufman-Renn has tried a team high 121 free throw, and he converts at a clip of 59.5 percent from the strip.

The Forsy Season Committee for the Big Ten Player of the Year, Smith is firm in the mixture to serve that honor. There is no better distributor in college basketball than Smith who has the best assistant in the country at 46.8 percent. Smith’s assistant-to-turnover ratio is 3.22 to 1, and he average 8.9 assists per Match. He also shoots 38.8 percent in 3s and is an average of 15.4 points per year. Fight, number two on the guard schedule. He is also an excellent rebounder for a guard, as his 4.8 rebounds per day. Games rank number two on the team.

Purdue’s third double figure scorer is a junior guard Fletcher Loyer. One of the country’s leading shooting games, Loyer makes 46.7 percent of its triple and is 44 percent from a distance in the Big Ten matches. His 14 points per Fight is third on the guard schedule. With defense that is key to Kaufman-Renn and Smith, Loyer does a good job of moving away from the ball to open. He doesn’t need much time to get his shot off and has one of the purest blows in the country.

The rest of the Purdue program list consists of role players filling production around Kaufman-Renn, Smith and Loyer.

The Upper Classmen Caleb Furst has been fantastic in conference games. The 6-FOD-10 Fort Wayne native shoots 69 percent in 2s in conference games and is among the 15 offensive rebounders in the league. Freshman Raleigh Burgess has seen that part of a young big man with a bright future in West Lafayette. Burgess, a 6-foot-11 center from Cincinnati, shoots 56.5 percent at 2S and 42.9 percent in 3s in limited minutes. He comes out of a strong six-point, three-bound effort in 14 minutes against Michigan last Friday.

Freshman CJ Cox, another recruitment find under the radar, has started by Purdue coaching staff, has started the last eight games. A 6-foot-3 guard from Lexington, Massachusetts, Cox is 20-for-48 (41.7 percent) in the 3s of the season. He earns 72.7 percent of his 2’s in the Big Ten matches. He is also an excellent defender.

Sophomores Myles Colvin and Camden Heide together with beginner Gicarri Harris, the son of the Great Glenn Robinson program, has Purdue fans excited about the future guard and wing rotation.

Colvin was considered by many to be a potential breakout candidate during the forecast. He has struggled with circumference shooting – 31.4 percent – but is a productive finisher. Colvin makes 58.8 percent of his 2s and had a big-time 20-point effort earlier in the season against Ole Miss. Heide makes winning plays, is athletic, brings a ton of energy and is efficient. He makes almost 70 percent of his 2s and average 4.9 points in 19.9 minutes per day. Match. Harris shoots only 36.4 percent off the field, but is 9-for-10 from the free-casting line over Purdues’s last three games.

Tempo-free preview

(We have updated the tempo-free chart to include only BIG TEN-GAMES. Statistics below are updated through Tuesday’s games.)

Through Tuesday’s Big Ten matches, Purdue ranks in the top three of the league in defensive revenue and rebounding percentages.

Boilermaker opponents turn it on 22.8 percent of belongings, and their league enemies grab only 27 percent of their unanswered shots.

Purdue ranks third in the league in the 3-point shooting percentage-36.7 and first in 2-point field target percentage-58. Boilermakers takes care of the ball, plays at a deliberate pace and has a point guard in Smith who can pick apart defense in the semi -court.

What it comes down to

The Kenpom projection favors Purdue with 12 with a 13 percent chance of an IU victory. The Bart Torvik projection favors Boilermakers with 14 with a 10 percent chance of a Hoosier disorder.

This is the most difficult game left on the Indiana scheme, and MacKey Arena is arguably the best home environment in the conference. As Hoosiers dropped four of their last five, the program has a little momentum on its way into this rivalry match.

Purdue will be looking to humble Hoosiers, corresponding to last season’s 20-point defeat in West Lafayette. Will Indiana compete or succumb to another skewed way defeat?

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