{"id":23900,"date":"2026-03-02T15:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23900"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:59:34","slug":"braden-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/braden-watch-2\/","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\" \/>With seven assists in yesterday&#8217;s loss to Ohio State, Braden Smith has surpassed Jason Brickman and sits in fourth place on the NCAA\u2019s career assists chart.\u00a0 With two regular season games remaining, Smith is now 19 assists away from tying North Carolina&#8217;s Ed Cota for third place and 65 away from Bobby Hurley\u2019s record of 1076.\u00a0 At his current pace of 8.7 assists per game, Smith would need a nearly seven and a half more games to reach Hurley, meaning Purdue would need to play at least five games between the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>1,076 \u2013 Bobby Hurley<br \/>\n1,038 \u2013 Chris Corchiani<br \/>\n1,030 \u2013 Ed Cota<br \/>\n1,011 \u2013 Braden Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With seven assists in yesterday&#8217;s loss to Ohio State, Braden Smith has surpassed Jason Brickman and sits in fourth place on the NCAA\u2019s career assists chart.\u00a0 With two regular season games remaining, Smith is now 19 assists away from tying North Carolina&#8217;s Ed Cota for third place and 65 away from Bobby Hurley\u2019s record of [&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":[5520,12361,289,11957,12362,12363,12360,3690,1527,2136,2138],"class_list":["post-23900","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-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-north-carolina","tag-ohio-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23900","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=23900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23901,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23900\/revisions\/23901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}