{"id":24427,"date":"2026-06-25T06:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24427"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:09:33","slug":"rolling-to-the-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/rolling-to-the-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling To The League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24428\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/smith_renn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/smith_renn.jpg 416w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/smith_renn-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/smith_renn-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/>For the first time since 2011, Purdue had two players selected in the NBA draft.\u00a0 Braden Smith, the all-time NCAA assists leader, was selected as the 38th overall pick by the Bulls but was quickly traded to the Pacers.\u00a0 With the 59th, and penultimate, pick, the Timberwolves selected Trey Kaufman-Renn.\u00a0 Smith and Kaufman-Renn led Purdue to the national title game in 2024, the Sweet Sixteen in 2025, and the Elite Eight this past March.<\/p>\n<p>Smith broke the Big Ten assists record in January before taking over the all-time NCAA record during the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0 He finished his Purdue career with 1,932 points and 1,103 assists, averaging 13.0 and 7.4 per game, respectively.\u00a0 Kaufman-Renn finished his career with 1,655 points, averaging 11.3 over his 147 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2011, Purdue had two players selected in the NBA draft.\u00a0 Braden Smith, the all-time NCAA assists leader, was selected as the 38th overall pick by the Bulls but was quickly traded to the Pacers.\u00a0 With the 59th, and penultimate, pick, the Timberwolves selected Trey Kaufman-Renn.\u00a0 Smith and Kaufman-Renn led Purdue [&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":[289,11957,1772,3690,1527,6140,5500,12530],"class_list":["post-24427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-boiler-up","tag-braden-smith","tag-bulls","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-pacers","tag-timberwolves","tag-trey-kaufman-renn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427","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=24427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24429,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427\/revisions\/24429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}