[13] Purdue 92, Yale 84 (Postgame Notes)
- The No. 13-ranked Purdue basketball team improved to 3-0 with a 92-84 win over the defending Ivy League champion Yale in front of 14,876 fans at Mackey Arena.
- Purdue is now at least 3-0 for the fourth straight season after starting 8-0 (2021-22), 13-0 (2022-23) and 7-0 (2023-24) in the previous three seasons.
- Purdue won its 38th straight regular-season, non-conference game, good for the fifth-longest streak in NCAA history. The only streaks longer are Syracuse (52; 2008-12), North Carolina (43; 2006-09), Illinois (40; 2003-06) and Arizona (39; 2011-14).
- Purdue’s 20-game home winning streak is now the fourth-longest active streak in the country.
- Purdue has won 24 straight games in the month of November.
- Since the start of the 2021-22 season, Purdue is now 95-19 overall.
- Purdue has now won 122 straight games when scoring 90 points, spanning 13,501 days to its last loss (Nov. 24, 1987 vs. Iowa State).
- Purdue has won 62 straight games when shooting at least 50.0 percent from the field, 40.0 percent from 3-point range and 70.0 percent from the free throw line, last losing on March 3, 2004. Purdue shot 53.8 percent from the field, 47.8 percent from 3-point range and 78.1 percent from the free throw lne.
- Braden Smith scored 22 points with nine rebounds, six assists and five steals. He is the first Big Ten player in the last 20 years to reach those marks in a game.
- For his career in 77 games, Smith has 853 points, 473 assists and 392 rebounds.
- Purdue’s big three of Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kaufman-Renn combined for 53 of Purdue’s 92 points.
- In three games this season, Purdue is shooting 31-of-71 (.437) from 3-point range after going 11-of-23 against Yale. The Boilermakers finished last year ranked 2nd in the country in 3-point percentage, and comparatively speaking, shot 31-of-67 (.463) in the first three games a year ago.
- Fletcher Loyer went 2-of-2 from 3-point range against Yale and is now 9-of-12 (.750) on the season. Dating to March 1 a year ago, Loyer is 28-of-45 (.622) from 3-point range.
- C.J. Cox set a season high with 12 points off the bench.
- Purdue’s bench accounted for 30 points.