{"id":24026,"date":"2026-03-23T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24026"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:06:11","slug":"and-i-would-once-again-walk-500-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/and-i-would-once-again-walk-500-more\/","title":{"rendered":"And I Would (Once Again) Walk 500 More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Matt-Painter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23446\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Matt-Painter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Matt-Painter.jpg 672w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Matt-Painter-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a>This past <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/and-i-would-walk-500-more\/\">November<\/a>, Matt Painter notched the 500th victory of his coaching career against Akron.\u00a0 In yesterday&#8217;s victory over Miami in the NCAA Tournament, he scored his 500th victory at Purdue, where he replaced Gene Keady in 2005.\u00a0 Painter becomes the fourth coach in Big Ten history to reach the 500-win plateau, joining Tom Izzo, Bobby Knight, and Keady.<\/p>\n<p>Keady ended his time on the Boilermaker bench with 512 victories, meaning that Painter, barring any freak occurrences, should pass his mentor early next season.\u00a0 Painter will look to add to his total on Thursday, when Purdue faces Texas in the Sweet Sixteen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past November, Matt Painter notched the 500th victory of his coaching career against Akron.\u00a0 In yesterday&#8217;s victory over Miami in the NCAA Tournament, he scored his 500th victory at Purdue, where he replaced Gene Keady in 2005.\u00a0 Painter becomes the fourth coach in Big Ten history to reach the 500-win plateau, joining Tom Izzo, [&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":[3316,2698,289,12539,11163,10251,3327,1527,2143,12538],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-akron","tag-big-ten","tag-boiler-up","tag-booby-knight","tag-gene-keady","tag-matt-painter","tag-miami","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-texas","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","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=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24040,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions\/24040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}