What we know about Purdue men’s basketball’s 2024-25 schedule

WEST LAFAYETTE — Coming off its first NCAA title game appearance since 1969 and first Final Four since 1980, Purdue basketball is again loading up on talent and competition.

Zach Edey is a projected first-round pick in June’s NBA draft. Lance Jones is gone. Ethan Morton transferred to Colorado State and Mason Gillis to Duke. Carson Barrett is now a graduate assistant coach after playing four years for the Boilermakers. Chase Martin graduated.

Those are the roster departures.

Additions come in the form of a top-10 recruiting class of six incoming freshmen.

More: Purdue basketball’s Zach Edey leaves college in rearview as he prepares to enter NBA

Among them, rising 7-foot-3 Daniel Jacobsen, who this week played himself onto Team USA’s 12-player U18 roster. Jacobsen, Kanon Catchings and Gicarri Harris headline a group that also includes CJ Cox, Raleigh Burgess and Jack Benter.

How they’ll help mold Purdue’s roster remains to be seen, but who they’ll play against is becoming more clear.

Mar 29, 2024; Detroit, MN, USA; Purdue Boilermakers mascot “Purdue Pete” preforms before the game against the Gonzaga Bulldogs during the NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional at Little Caesars Arena. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports

What to know about 2024-25 Purdue basketball schedule

Here’s what we know of Purdue’s 2024-25 opponents.

∎ Purdue has schedule a home-and-home series against Alabama, a Final Four team last season that the Boilermakers defeated in a neutral site game in Toronto. The first of those two meetings is at Mackey Arena on Nov. 15.

∎ Another home-and-home series is scheduled against Marquette, a team Purdue beat in the championship of last season’s Maui Invitational. The first of those two games is Nov. 19 at Marquette.

∎ It was announced on Thursday the participants at the Rady Children’s Invitational in San Diego on Nov. 28 and 29 have chanced. Purdue and BYU remain in the field. Mississippi and North Carolina State, which Purdue defeated in the Final Four, are…

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Publish date : 2024-05-30 21:58:47

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