{"id":23938,"date":"2026-03-09T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23938"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:50:20","slug":"braden-watch-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/braden-watch-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Braden Watch"},"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=\"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\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Braden Smith finished Big Ten Conference play with nine assists in Saturday\u2019s loss to Wisconsin, keeping him in fourth place on the NCAA\u2019s career assists chart.\u00a0 Smith is now just one assists away from tying North Carolina\u2019s Ed Cota for third place and 47 away from Bobby Hurley\u2019s record of 1076 as we head into the Big Ten Tournament.\u00a0 At his current pace of 8.7 assists per game, Smith would need Purdue to play at six games between the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA Tournament in order to best Hurley.\u00a0 With the way they have been playing, that does not seem likely.<\/p>\n<p>1,076 \u2013 Bobby Hurley<br \/>\n1,038 \u2013 Chris Corchiani<br \/>\n1,030 \u2013 Ed Cota<br \/>\n1,029 \u2013 Braden Smith<\/p>\n<p>Smith ends his career with 585 assists in Big Ten Conference games, extending his record by 107 assists over Cassius Winston.\u00a0 Purdue makes their first appearance in the Big Ten Conference Tournament on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braden Smith finished Big Ten Conference play with nine assists in Saturday\u2019s loss to Wisconsin, keeping him in fourth place on the NCAA\u2019s career assists chart.\u00a0 Smith is now just one assists away from tying North Carolina\u2019s Ed Cota for third place and 47 away from Bobby Hurley\u2019s record of 1076 as we head into [&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":[2698,5520,12361,289,11957,12313,12362,12363,3690,1527,2136,2146],"class_list":["post-23938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-big-ten","tag-big-ten-tournament","tag-bobby-hurley","tag-boiler-up","tag-braden-smith","tag-cassius-winston","tag-chris-corchiani","tag-ed-cota","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-north-carolina","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938","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=23938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23949,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23938\/revisions\/23949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}