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Matt Painter Talks Return of 'Big 3,' Purdue Basketball's Goals for 2025-26 Season
In a recent interview, Matt Painter talked about Purdue's goals for the 2025-26 season and the return of Braden Smith, Trey ...
Matt Painter has eyes on Purdue's next Zach Edey
Purdue's Matt Painter is scouting the next big talent to fill Zach Edey's shoes, aiming to maintain the Boilermakers' ...
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Purdue's Matt Painter so close to career-defining Final Four but Tennessee is the last step
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 ...
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Purdue's Matt Painter has been one of best coaches of his generation win or lose vs. UConn
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 ...
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Matt Painter is at Purdue because of IU legend Jimmy Rayl, and Painter has never forgotten
GLENDALE, Ariz. – In another world, a more realistic world than the one that launched Matt Painter into the 2024 national championship game, he’s not here. Not either one of them. Not Matt ...
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Matt Painter on cusp of elusive Final Four and changing national perception of Purdue.
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 ...
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How Matt Painter, Purdue’s ‘basketball junkie,’ foreshadowed his coaching success during his playing days
The magazines. Bring up Matt Painter to former Purdue teammates, and everyone usually starts with the magazines. “The Hoop Scoop,” “Street and Smith’s Official Yearbook.” Whatever he ...
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Matt Painter on the cusp of a career-defining win and Purdue basketball's coach knows it
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 ...
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Doyel: Matt Painter warned Rutgers was 'playing for keeps,' but No. 1 Purdue didn't listen
Purdue coach Matt Painter walks into the postgame news conference with empty hands, which won’t do. He needs to see it. The box score, I mean. He needs to see exactly what Rutgers did to knock ...
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Matt Painter may just be the realest, which is why Purdue keeps on winning
HARTFORD, Conn. — To understand how Purdue coach Matt Painter makes this work, how he got his roster to “get old and stay old” and win a Big Ten championship in a season when it had to ...
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Matt Painter can finish what Gene Keady helped start at Purdue
In 1988, sportswriter Mark Montieth published a book called “Passion Play,” in which he chronicled a season with Purdue and its coach at the time, Gene Keady. The title was perfect, and the ...
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Painter: 'My Best Friends When I was 12 are Still my Best Friends Now'
Purdue coach Matt Painter had his jersey number retired at Delta High School Saturday night, and the event said a lot about the person he is. MUNCIE, Ind. — Matt Painter has never been that ...