WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The long-awaited return of the 2022-23 school basketball season is lastly upon us, and Purdue is able to open its new marketing campaign with a house matchup with Milwaukee on Tuesday inside Mackey Enviornment. 

The crew is coming off a 102-57 exhibition win over Truman State lower than every week in the past, and the Boilermakers are coming into the 12 months unranked after ending with a 29-8 total file final season, which ended with a loss to the Saint Peter’s Peacocks within the Candy 16.

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Purdue is 16-1 in season openers below head coach Matt Painter, having gained the final 9 by a median of 28.2 factors. The crew will look so as to add to that success when the Panthers come to West Lafayette. 

“We do not have a ton of movie, and from what the coaches mentioned, it is a newer group of men,” Purdue junior guard Ethan Morton mentioned forward of the sport. “They obtained a brand new coach, they introduced in loads of transfers from all completely different locations. I believe it is a type of video games the place it is extra about us and simply doing what we do. Being stable with our ideas and our scheme.” 

Here is all the things it’s worthwhile to know forward of the matchup, together with TV info, a take a look at Milwaukee coach Bart Lundy and three issues to look at within the crew’s first displaying of the season:

Tips on how to watch Purdue Boilermakers vs. Milwaukee Panthers

• Who: Purdue Boilermakers vs. Milwaukee Panthers
• What: Purdue’s season opener for the 2022-23 school basketball season. 
• When: 6:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Nov. 8.
• The place: Mackey Enviornment in West Lafayette, Ind.
• TV: BTN
• TV Announcers: Kevin Kugler, Bruce Weber
• Radio: WAZY (96.5)
• Radio Announcers: Rob Blackman, Bobby Riddell, Wes Scott (producer)
• Final season’s data: Purdue was 29-8 total, together with a 14-6 mark in Massive Ten play. Within the NCAA Match, the crew defeated Yale and Texas earlier than shedding to Saint Peter’s 67-64 within the Candy 16. Milwaukee went 10-22 and 8-14 within the Horizon League.

Meet the coaches

Purdue: Matt Painter enters his 18th season as the top coach of Purdue basketball. He owns a 384-192 total file with this system, together with a 194-115 mark within the Massive Ten. With simply 16 extra victories, Painter can change into simply the fifth coach in Massive Ten historical past with 400 profession wins whereas at a convention faculty, becoming a member of Bob Knight, Tom Izzo, Gene Keady and Lou Henson.

Painter started his head teaching profession at Southern Illinois, main the crew atop the Missouri Valley Convention with a 25-5 total file in the course of the 2003-04 season, dropping just one recreation in league matchups.

Milwaukee: Bart Lundy is coming into his first season on the helm for Milwaukee. He grew to become the eighth head coach for the reason that program moved to NCAA Division I in 1990.  He was the top coach at Queens College of Charlotte from 2013-2022, which was his second stint with this system, and in addition frolicked main Excessive Level College from 2003-2009. Lundy has a 433-189 total file throughout his head teaching profession. 

Three issues to look at from Purdue

 1. Confidence and effectivity from the beginning unit

It is no secret that Purdue goes to run its offense by way of star heart Zach Edey, a preseason All-Massive Ten choice, from the opening tip. His dominance within the paint requires a cohesive unit that includes gamers which are keen passers and constant decision-makers. 

That is the place Morton — alongside true freshmen guards Braden Smith and Fletcher Loyer — comes into play. The trio was among the many starters for each the crew’s scrimmage towards Cincinnati and in its exhibition towards Truman State. For the three of them, discovering the precise stability of aggressiveness and easily making the good play shall be one thing to search for early within the season. 

“I simply need them to make good selections,” Painter mentioned. “Not likely being aggressive, simply taking what the protection offers them. When it is there, search for your shot. When you will have angles, look to be aggressive and drive, however be below management. For us, if we are able to make good selections, we will be OK.” 

The Boilermakers had solely 4 turnovers of their exhibition recreation in comparison with 28 crew assists. Morton, Smith and Loyer mixed for simply eight factors within the win whereas Edey posted a team-high 23 factors in 16 minutes on the ground. Loyer was 1-of-7 from the ground, making one 3-pointer, and Smith failed to attain. 

“On the finish of the day, getting the ball inside and creating put up doubles and getting groups in rotation is nearly as good an offense as any,” Morton mentioned. “However nonetheless being aggressive on misses and stuff that we run. 

“So it will be essential to search out that stability, and completely different groups are going to clearly name for various kinds of video games relying on how they play us. However it’s at all times going to be essential for us to be aggressive, simply to open up issues for Zach and everybody else that will get in there as effectively.” 

2. Frontcourt duo of Caleb Furst and Trey Kaufman-Renn

Redshirt freshman Trey Kaufman-Renn was wonderful in Purdue’s exhibition win, going 6-of-7 from the sector for 15 factors, together with a 3-pointer, whereas additionally tallying six rebounds. He and sophomore Caleb Furst are amongst a robust frontcourt and can see extra time below the basket when Edey makes his method to the bench. 

However in contrast to their 7-foot-4 counterpart, Kaufman-Renn and Furst have the flexibility to stretch the ground, giving the Boilermakers are extra dynamic look when substitutions are made. 

“I believe greater than something, they form of have the identical measurement, so how folks match as much as them goes to be attention-grabbing,” Painter mentioned. “Each of them are powerful matchups. Collectively, I believe they trigger even a more durable look.” 

The 2 forwards, each a part of the crew’s 2021 freshman class a 12 months in the past, will look to develop chemistry on the court docket that Purdue can benefit from in video games. In some ways, they’re interchangeable on each ends of the ground, however the variations of their talent units are certain to trigger issues for opposing groups in the course of the 2022-23 season. 

“I believe we undoubtedly have some versatility with it,” Furst mentioned. “We’re capable of praise one another effectively, form of play of one another and change between that 4 and 5 place on offense and protection, which undoubtedly helps lots.” 

Kaufman-Renn has already proven the flexibility to create space for himself within the paint to get simple photographs to fall. And whereas Furst went 0-2 from the 3-point line in final week’s exhibition, his capability to knock down bounce photographs on the perimeter will play a consider making area for different gamers beneath the basket. 

“He can actually shoot,” Kaufman-Renn mentioned of Furst. “At any time when you will have shooters in your crew, it simply offers you extra space. Persons are actually simply going to have to choose their poison.” 

3. Combating a new-look Milwaukee program

In Lundy’s first season at Milwaukee, the crew returns simply 4 gamers from final 12 months’s squad. The crew misplaced its prime seven scorers from the 2021-22 season, with redshirt senior Vin Baker Jr. coming again to this system after averaging 5.1 factors and three.2 rebounds per contest. 

The Panthers will look to fight Edey with 7-foot-1 graduate heart Moses Bol, who appeared in 25 video games a season in the past and made 4 begins. 

“Their roster’s turned the other way up,” Painter mentioned. “They’ve a brand new coach, they’ve a few guys which are again from final 12 months. Numerous athleticism, loads of guys which are very versatile that may assault you off the bounce. I believe it’ll be essential for us to have the ability to deal with their strain.” 

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