{"id":20063,"date":"2023-03-04T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20063"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:52:09","slug":"25-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/25-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/b10champs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20064\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/b10champs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/b10champs.jpg 878w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/b10champs-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/b10champs-768x437.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/a>What was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Purdue men\u2019s basketball team, following the loss of Jaden Ivey, Trevion Williams, Eric Hunter, Sasha Stefanovic, and Isaiah Thompson, turned into the program&#8217;s 25th Big Ten Conference championship.\u00a0 Matt Painter and company last won a share of the conference title in 2019 and last won it outright in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Their 25 titles are the most amongst all Big Ten schools.\u00a0 Indiana, of course, is second with 22 championships.\u00a0 After closing out the regular season against Illinois tomorrow in West Lafayette, Purdue comes to Chicago next week as the #1 seed in the Big Ten Tournament at the United Center.\u00a0 A deep run should guarantee them a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament as they try to reach the Final Four for the first time since 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Purdue men\u2019s basketball team, following the loss of Jaden Ivey, Trevion Williams, Eric Hunter, Sasha Stefanovic, and Isaiah Thompson, turned into the program&#8217;s 25th Big Ten Conference championship.\u00a0 Matt Painter and company last won a share of the conference title in 2019 and last won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[2698,5520,289,10248,1367,10250,2100,10246,10251,1527,10249,10247,1526],"class_list":["post-20063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-big-ten","tag-big-ten-tournament","tag-boiler-up","tag-eric-hunter","tag-fighting-illini","tag-isaiah-thompson","tag-iu","tag-jaden-ivey","tag-matt-painter","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-sasha-stefanovic","tag-trevion-williams","tag-united-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20065,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20063\/revisions\/20065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}