Purdue Boilermakers NCAA Basketball News

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Robbie Hummel scored 17 points to help No. 7 Purdue beat Cal State Northridge 89-63 on Friday night in the season opener for both teams.

Tonight, the seventh-ranked Purdue Boilermakers welcome the Cal State Northridge Matadors to Mackey Arena for the official season opener for both teams.A On both sides of the court, new faces will feature prominently.

The seventh-ranked Purdue Boilermakers know what they have in veterans such as JaJuan Johnson, Robbie Hummel, and E'Twaun Moore.A What they need to discover is how much support that talented trio can expect from the younger members of this year's team.

After hours of emails and voice mails yelling at me today because The Star didn't run a story on Purdue's nationally ranked recruiting class, I was confused.

Purdue hasn't been to a Final Four since 1980, but with all five starters back from last season's team that reached the regional semifinals, the Boilermakers might have an opportunity at making the one-hour drive to Indianapolis in April.

Purdue coach Matt Painter and the Boilermakers have made a decision on the status of freshman guard Kelsey Barlow.

Four players -- three from Indiana, two ranked in top 100 -- expected to solidify commitments to Boilers For the past four years, Purdue coach Matt Painter has been building his team with talent from Indiana and around the Midwest.

Purdue men's basketball coach Matt Painter has never had depth like this before.

So Purdue plays its second and final exhibition game, against traditional Division II power Kentucky Wesleyan.

Jay Simpson has never started a varsity game at Champaign Central High School and won't turn 16 until Dec.

Friday's news that 6-9, 261-pound freshman center Sandi Marcius will miss 4-to-6 weeks with a fractured second metatarsal of his right foot means that fellow Purdue freshmen Patrick Bade and DJ Byrd will have to help JaJuan Johnson and Robbie Hummel along the front line.

What's Matt Painter do? The Purdue coach wants to win, play well, utilize depth and maximize potential.

Here comes college basketball , and since every pre-season discussion apparently needs a top 10 and a Dick Vitale appearance, we have it.

7 Purdue Boilermakers beat California of Pennsylvania 78-44 in an exhibition game on Tuesday night.

Purdue guard Chris Kramer and Notre Dame forward Luke Harangody, both members of the 2006 Indianapolis Star Indiana All-Star team, are two of the 30 finalists for the Lowe's Senior Class Award.

Well, we'll get our first live look at Purdue in its season of big expectations, as it opens the two-game exhibition schedule against California of Pennsylvania, a Division II school near Pittsburgh.

Chris Kramer soared, Keaton Grant scored and the Paint Crew roared. So much for Boiler exhibition vulnerability.

Leading into the college basketball season openers, Sporting News will preview each of the top 25, counting backward from our preseason power poll.

It's taken more than 15 seasons, but the Mountain State has made it back on the Associated Press basketball poll map.

Tom Izzo has witnessed Big Ten Conference basketball from the Michigan State bench for the past 27 years.