{"id":24007,"date":"2026-03-21T04:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24007"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:31:07","slug":"standing-alone-atop-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/standing-alone-atop-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Alone Atop The Mountain"},"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>On November 8, 2022, about eight minutes into his first game as a freshman, Braden Smith passed the ball to Trey Kaufman-Renn, who scored and gave Smith his first career assist.\u00a0 Last night, about eight minutes into the first game of the NCAA Tournament as a senior, Braden Smith passed the ball to Trey Kaufman-Renn, who scored and gave Smith his record-breaking 1,077th career assist.\u00a0 The play moved Smith past Duke\u2019s Bobby Hurley for the NCAA\u2019s career assists record; one Hurley had held since 1993.\u00a0 Smith finished the game with eight assists, giving him 1,083 for his career.\u00a0 He will attempt to add on to that total tomorrow as Purdue takes on Miami in the round of 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 8, 2022, about eight minutes into his first game as a freshman, Braden Smith passed the ball to Trey Kaufman-Renn, who scored and gave Smith his first career assist.\u00a0 Last night, about eight minutes into the first game of the NCAA Tournament as a senior, Braden Smith passed the ball to Trey Kaufman-Renn, [&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":[12361,289,11957,2108,3327,3690,1527,12530],"class_list":["post-24007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-bobby-hurley","tag-boiler-up","tag-braden-smith","tag-duke","tag-miami","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-trey-kaufman-renn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007","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=24007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24008,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions\/24008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}