DETROIT — Tom Izzo fawned over the Purdue basketball program and the job Matt Painter has done constructing a consistent winner. Michigan State had just fought back but, like every other ...

In an interview with college basketball analyst Andy Katz, Matt Painter talked about Purdue's goals for the 2025-26 season and the return of Braden Smith, Trey Kaufman-Renn, and Fletcher Loyer.

Once again, Purdue will play one of the most challenging schedules in college basketball. Coach Matt Painter explained why he likes that model recently.

ROSEMONT, Ill. - Purdue men’s basketball coach Matt Painter stood out as the exception among his peers at Big Ten Media Days. Almost to a man, the conference’s other coaches spoke ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — On the night of his most public, humiliating failure as a college coach, Purdue coach Matt Painter got a text message from Virginia’s Tony Bennett. It was March 17 ...

DETROIT — Tom Izzo fawned over the Purdue basketball program and the job Matt Painter has done constructing a consistent winner. Michigan State had just fought back but, like every other ...

Follow live coverage as UConn, Purdue play for the national championship today GLENDALE, Ariz. — The magazines. Bring up Matt Painter to former Purdue teammates, and everyone usually starts with ...

Twenty years ago, to the week, Purdue basketball brought Matt Painter back to West Lafayette. As Journal & Courier reporter Jeff Washburn wrote April 9, 2004: Matt Painter, once an Indiana ...

Matt Painter wanders over during a break in a Purdue practice with a confession. For the last few minutes, as his Boilermakers ran through drills, he was not thinking about their next opponent.

Not either one of them. Not Matt Painter, and not the kid with bleached-blond hair in the Purdue locker room at State Farm Stadium, site of the 2024 Final Four. Where would Painter be, if not ...

"It was one of those grinder-type games," Purdue coach Matt Painter said. The Wolfpack now know the feeling of 24 other teams that Purdue took out over 34 wins this season. (Some fell into the ...

Purdue coach Matt Painter, though, said he took the departure in stride. Regardless of the juncture, the fit must be right for both program and player. "If something happened, it would be one ...