Boilers fall in national title game

1] UConn 75, [3] Purdue 60 (National Championship Postgame Notes)

• 1-ranked UConn stopped Purdue’s quest for its first National Championship with a 75-60 setback to the Huskies, in front of 74,423 fans – the third-largest championship game crowd ever.
• The Boilermakers finish the season with a 34-5 record, setting the school record for wins in a season (34).
• The senior class of Zach Edey, Mason Gillis, Ethan Morton, Lance Jones, Chase Martin and Carson Barrett finish their careers with a 110-29 overall record (.791), the most wins by a senior class in school history.
• Purdue lost for the first time this season to a nationally-ranked team, ending the year with a 10-1 record against nationally-ranked squads.
• Zach Edey’s 37 points are tied for the fourth most in a National Championship game (44 – UCLA’s Bill Walton, 1973; 42 – UCLA’s Gail Goodrich, 1965; 41 — Kentucky’s Jack Givens, 1978). It was the most points scored by a player in the National Championship game in 46 years.
• Edey is one of two players to have at least 37 points and 10 rebounds in National Championship game history (Bill Walton, Lew Alcindor).
• Edey’s 177 points in the NCAA Tournament are tied for the second most in an NCAA Tournament, behind Glen Rice’s (Michigan) 184 points in 1989. Edey’s seven straight double-doubles in NCAA Tournament play are the longest in NCAA Tournament history.
• Zach Edey ended the season with 983 points and 474 rebounds. Edey and Houston’s Elvin Hayes (1968) are the only players in NCAA history to finish a year with those numbers.
• Edey’s 983 points end as the second most in both Purdue history and Big Ten history in a single season, behind Glenn Robinson (1994).
• Edey’s 474 rebounds are the second most in Big Ten history behind Ohio State’s Jerry Lucas (499; 1962).
• Zach Edey’s 436 free throw attempts are tied for the second most in a season in NCAA history, tied with LSU’s Pete Maravich in 1970, and only behind Furman’s Frank Selvy (400; 1954).
• Edey’s 30 double-doubles are tied for the fourth most in a season in NCAA history (31 – Navy’s David Robinson, 1986; 31 – North Carolina’s Armando Bacot, 2022; 31 – Akron’s Enrique Freeman, 2024).
• Edey finished his career with 90 straight double-figure scoring games and 116 double-figure games in his career, tying E’Twaun Moore for the school record for career 10-point games.
• Edey finished the season with 84 blocked shots, tied for the fifth most in a season in school history.
• Edey and Shaquille O’Neal are the only players in NCAA history to average at least 25.0 points, 12.0 rebounds and shoot 60.0 percent from the field in a single season.
• Edey finished his career with 2,516 points and 1,321 rebounds. Edey is one of six players in NCAA history to have those numbers in a career (Lionel Simmons, Oscar Robertson, Elvin Hayes, Michael Brooks, Dickie Hemric).
• Braden Smith recorded 12 points, 8 assists and 3 rebounds, setting the Big Ten record for most assists in a season (292), passing Michigan State’s Cassius Winston (291; 2019).