2024–25 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team explained

Sport:basketball
Year:2024–25
Team:Purdue Boilermakers
Conference:Big Ten Conference
Short Conf:Big Ten
Record:0–0
Conf Record:0–0
Head Coach:Matt Painter
Hc Year:20th
Asst Coach1:Brandon Brantley
Ac1 Year:12th
Asst Coach2:Terry Johnson
Ac2 Year:4th
Asst Coach3:Paul Lusk
Ac3 Year:4th
Arena:Mackey Arena

The 2024–25 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team represents Purdue University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach is Matt Painter, who is in his 20th season with the Boilermakers. The Boilermakers play their home games at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana as members of the Big Ten Conference.

Previous season

With their win over Michigan State on March 2, 2024, Purdue clinched a share of their 26th Big Ten regular season championship.[1] Three days later, the Boilermakers clinched the Big Ten title outright for the second consecutive year with their victory over Illinois.[2] The team finished the season 34–5, 17–3 in Big Ten play. They defeated Michigan State in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament before losing to Wisconsin in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 1 seed in the Midwest region. It marked the second consecutive year as a No. 1 seed.[3] They defeated Grambling State and Utah State to break the school record of most wins in a season.[4] They defeated Gonzaga in the Sweet Sixteen and defeated Tennessee in the Elite Eight to return to the Final Four for the first time since 1980. In the Final Four, they defeated NC State to advance to the National Championship game, their first since 1969, where they lost to No. 1 overall seed UConn.

Offseason

Departures

Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure
Mason Gillis 0 F 6'6" 225 Senior Transferred to Duke
15 C 7'4" 300 Senior Declared for the 2024 NBA draft; selected 9th overall pick by the Memphis Grizzlies
Chase Martin 22 G 6'2" 180 Senior Walk-on; graduated
Ethan Morton 25 G 6'7" 215 Senior Transferred to Colorado State
Carson Barrett 34 G 6'5" 210 Senior Walk-on; graduated
Lance Jones 55 G 6'1" 200 GS Senior Graduated

Recruiting classes

2024 recruiting class

Schedule and results

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Purdue Clinches Share of 2023-24 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Title . https://web.archive.org/web/20240303052829/https://bigten.org/news/2024/3/2/general-purdue-clinches-share-of-2023-24-big-ten-conference-mens-basketball-title.aspx . dead . March 3, 2024 . BigTen.org . March 2, 2024 . March 4, 2024.
  2. News: Stein . Steve . Purdue clinches outright Big Ten title . March 6, 2024 . The Standard-Journal . March 6, 2024.
  3. Web site: Schofield . Mark . 2024-03-17 . NCAA men's bracket 2024: The full ranking seed list, from No. 1 to No. 68 . 2024-03-18 . SBNation.com . en.
  4. Web site: March 24, 2024 . The most wins in school history. .
  5. Web site: 2024–25 Purdue Boilermakers Schedule and Results. 2024-07-15. purduesports.com. en.