{"id":23878,"date":"2026-02-28T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23878"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:04:27","slug":"braden-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/braden-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Braden Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22600\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bradensmith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bradensmith.jpg 750w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bradensmith-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bradensmith-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>As we head into the final week of the regular season, Braden Smith sits in fifth place for the all-time NCAA assist leaderboard.\u00a0 During Thursday&#8217;s loss to Michigan State, Smith notched ten assists, giving him 1004 for his career and becoming just the fifth player to surpass 1000.\u00a0 With three non-tournament games remaining, Smith is five assists away from tying LIU&#8217;s Jason Brickman for fourth place and 72 away from Bobby Hurley&#8217;s record of 1076.\u00a0 At his current pace of 8.8 assists per game, Smith would need a little over eight more games to reach Hurley, meaning Purdue would need at least five games between the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>1,076 &#8211; Bobby Hurley<br \/>\n1,038 &#8211; Chris Corchiani<br \/>\n1,030 &#8211; Ed Cota<br \/>\n1,009 &#8211; Jason Brickman<br \/>\n1,004 &#8211; Braden Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we head into the final week of the regular season, Braden Smith sits in fifth place for the all-time NCAA assist leaderboard.\u00a0 During Thursday&#8217;s loss to Michigan State, Smith notched ten assists, giving him 1004 for his career and becoming just the fifth player to surpass 1000.\u00a0 With three non-tournament games remaining, Smith is [&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":[5520,12361,289,11957,12362,12363,12360,12359,2110,3690,1527],"class_list":["post-23878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-big-ten-tournament","tag-bobby-hurley","tag-boiler-up","tag-braden-smith","tag-chris-corchiani","tag-ed-cota","tag-jason-brickman","tag-liu","tag-michigan-state","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23878","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=23878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23879,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23878\/revisions\/23879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}