For someone who pursues perfection, Braden ... skid by its highest-volume shooter creates a potential issue for Purdue — though perhaps not the obvious one. It sometimes makes Smith hesitant ...

Braden Smith had a banner season for Purdue basketball, proving his statistics as the Boilermaker point guard in his first two seasons weren't solely a product of having Zach Edey as a teammate.

Bruce Parkinson knows good point guard play when he sees it, and from the stands at Westfield High School in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Purdue’s all-time assists leader — at least at the ...

For someone who pursues perfection, Braden Smith sometimes ... A shooting skid by its highest-volume shooter creates a potential issue for Purdue — though perhaps not the obvious one. It sometimes ...