{"id":23907,"date":"2026-03-05T08:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23907"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:24:53","slug":"braden-watch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/braden-watch-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Braden Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bradensmith.jpg\"><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\" \/><\/a>With nine assists in yesterday\u2019s victory over Northwestern, Braden Smith remains in fourth place on the NCAA\u2019s career assists chart.\u00a0 With just one regular season game remaining, Smith is now ten assists away from tying North Carolina\u2019s Ed Cota for third place and 54 away from Bobby Hurley\u2019s record of 1076.\u00a0 At his current pace of 8.7 assists per game, Smith would need over six 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 \/>\n1,020 \u2013 Braden Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With nine assists in yesterday\u2019s victory over Northwestern, Braden Smith remains in fourth place on the NCAA\u2019s career assists chart.\u00a0 With just one regular season game remaining, Smith is now ten assists away from tying North Carolina\u2019s Ed Cota for third place and 54 away from Bobby Hurley\u2019s record of 1076.\u00a0 At his current pace [&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":[5520,12361,289,11957,12362,12363,3690,1527,2136,2702],"class_list":["post-23907","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-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-north-carolina","tag-northwestern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907","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=23907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23908,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23907\/revisions\/23908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}