{"id":23689,"date":"2026-04-01T04:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:41:31","slug":"2025-2026-final-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/2025-2026-final-standings\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-2026 Final Standings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Purdue\u2019s men\u2019s basketball season came to an end on Sunday, falling to Arizona in the Elite Eight.\u00a0 It was a disappointing, but appropriate, end for a team ranked #1 in the pre-season and expected to compete for a national title but struggled throughout the conference schedule.\u00a0 While home tickets remained hard to come by this season, I did manage to see six games in five arenas across four states, thanks to a January trip out west to California, a Valentine’s Day visit to Iowa City, and the Big Ten Tournament here at the United Center, tied for the greatest number of games I’ve attended in a single season while adding both the Galen Center and Pauley Pavilion to my collection.<\/p>\n

2026 Team Records – Men<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purdue\u2019s men\u2019s basketball season came to an end on Sunday, falling to Arizona in the Elite Eight.\u00a0 It was a disappointing, but appropriate, end for a team ranked #1 in the pre-season and expected to compete for a national title but struggled throughout the conference schedule.\u00a0 While home tickets remained hard to come by this […]<\/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":[3313,5520,289,12327,2701,1527,2700,2702,12332,2435,3317,1526,6577,1440],"class_list":["post-23689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-arizona","tag-big-ten-tournament","tag-boiler-up","tag-galen-center","tag-iowa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-nebraska","tag-northwestern","tag-pauley-pavilion","tag-penn-state","tag-ucla","tag-united-center","tag-usc","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689","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=23689"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24068,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions\/24068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

TeamName<\/span><\/th>\nWon<\/span><\/th>\nLoss<\/span><\/th>\nWinning Pctg<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
UCLA Bruins<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Purdue Boilermakers<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.833<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
USC Trojans<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Penn State Nittany Lions<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northwestern Wildcats<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nebraska Cornhuskers<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Iowa Hawkeyes<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0.000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n