{"id":22599,"date":"2025-03-12T07:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22599"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:25:51","slug":"gathering-some-hardware-on-the-hardwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/gathering-some-hardware-on-the-hardwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering Some Hardware On The Hardwood"},"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=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bradensmith.jpg 750w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bradensmith-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/bradensmith-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>For the third consecutive year, the Big Ten&#8217;s Men&#8217;s Basketball Player of the Year calls Mackey Arena home.\u00a0 Braden Smith took home the honor on Tuesday, thanks to a season averaging 16.3 points, 8.8 assists and 2.3 steals per game.\u00a0 He became just the fourth player in Division I history to have at least 500 points, 270 assists, 140 rebounds and 70 steals in a single season.\u00a0 Along the way, he scored his 1000th career point, his 500th career rebound, and broke the school record for career assists.<\/p>\n<p>After Zach Edey won the award the previous two years, Purdue becomes the first school to have three straight Big Ten Players of the Year.\u00a0 This is the seventh time overall that a Boilermaker has won the award.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third consecutive year, the Big Ten&#8217;s Men&#8217;s Basketball Player of the Year calls Mackey Arena home.\u00a0 Braden Smith took home the honor on Tuesday, thanks to a season averaging 16.3 points, 8.8 assists and 2.3 steals per game.\u00a0 He became just the fourth player in Division I history to have at least 500 [&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":[2698,289,11957,1643,10585],"class_list":["post-22599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-big-ten","tag-boiler-up","tag-braden-smith","tag-mackey-arena","tag-zach-edey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22601,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22599\/revisions\/22601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}