Kenny Thompson

Unlike several Big Ten schools which recruit new teams each season from the transfer portal, Purdue men’s basketball prospered during the past 10 years mainly with high school recruits. But…

Here are some interesting numbers from Purdue’s NCAA Tournament run. Six – That’s the number of Sweet 16 appearances over the last eight tournaments. Midwest Region top seed Houston, the…

Instead of filling out an NCAA tournament bracket this week and losing to someone who picked winners by school mascots, I decided on an eight-team fantasy tournament based on the…

Sometimes it feels good to be wrong. When the Purdue men’s basketball team wilted down the stretch, falling from first place to a share of fourth, I figured Big Ten…

There’s really no such thing as an unbreakable record but some standards are more out of reach than others. In Major League Baseball there’s Cy Young’s 511 victories and Joe…

Barring the unexpected, yet another rewrite to the Purdue men’s basketball record book will take place sometime tonight in Mackey Arena. One season after Zach Edey broke the career scoring…

Remember when Darrell Hazell was a home run hire for the Purdue football program? “Hazell produced one of the more remarkable feats of 2012, leading Kent State to not only…

Like his five predecessors as Indiana basketball head coach, Mike Woodson was asked to do the impossible: be the second coming of Bob Knight for a fan base that cannot…

Last week’s 81-76 victory against Indiana inside Mackey Arena was historical for the Purdue men’s basketball program. Already the winningest school in Big Ten Conference games only (1,047-712), the seventh-ranked…

Former Purdue star George Karlaftis and the Kansas City Chiefs can make NFL history Feb. 9 with a victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.…