Purdue Boilermakers NCAA Basketball Betting
In their first season after the Zach Edey era, the Purdue Boilermakers showed well in gaining the Sweet Sixteen before a near miss loss to the Houston Cougars. Head coach Matt Painter’s Purdue program has been solidified as one of the best in the nation as a consistent Final Four contender. Now comes an important offseason for Painter, who must continue to try and keep up in the Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten and SEC have separated themselves from the rest of college basketball with their larger revenue streams and ability to attract top talent.
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2025 Purdue Boilermakers Season Recap
Overall, the Purdue Boilermakers are 24-11 straight up, 17-14 against the spread, and 18-12-1 over/under the total. Purdue has national metrics of 80th for scoring offense, 12th for field goal percentage, 16th for 3-point field goal percentage, 141st for free throw percentage, and 314th for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Purdue is 151st for scoring defense, 272nd for field goal percentage permitted, 30th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 41st for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Purdue has covered five of its previous eight games and has gone under the total in four of its last five outings. Trey Kaufman Renn is first among Purdue scorers with 20.1 per game.
Milos Uzan soared for an uncontested layup on a beautifully executed inbound play with 0.9 seconds left. No. 1 seed Houston survived a late collapse to beat fourth-seeded Purdue 62-60 in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.
Houston led 56-46 with just under eight minutes remaining but made only one field goal from there until Uzan’s tiebreaking bucket. He inbounded the ball from the baseline to Joseph Tugler, who threw a bounce pass back to Uzan, and the 6-foot-4 junior took it to the rim.
Coach Kelvin Sampson’s Cougars advanced to the Elite Eight for the third time in five years after falling in the Sweet 16 as a top seed in the previous two editions of March Madness.
Houston, the Big 12 regular-season and tournament champion, became the fourth No. 1 seed to reach the Elite Eight. The Cougars haven’t lost since Feb. 1 and won this time at Lucas Oil Stadium, where their 2021 tourney run ended with a loss in the Final Four to eventual national champion Baylor.
Uzan scored 22 points and Emanuel Sharp had 17 as Houston survived an off night from leading scorer L.J. Cryer, who finished with five points on 2-of-13 shooting.
Fletcher Loyer scored 16 points, Trey Kaufman-Renn had 14, and Big Ten player of the year Braden Smith added seven points and 15 assists to lead Purdue. Smith assisted on all 11 second-half baskets for last year’s national runner-up, which played in front of a friendly crowd about an hour’s drive from its campus in West Lafayette.
Houston appeared on the verge of disaster when Kaufman-Renn scored on a dunk and then blocked Cryer’s shot with 1:17 to go, leading to Camden Heide’s three that tied the score at 60 with 35 seconds left.
Sampson called a timeout to set up the final play, but Uzan missed a turnaround jumper and Tugler’s tip-in rolled off the rim and out of bounds. The Cougars got one more chance after a replay review confirmed the ball went off of Purdue, and Uzan took over from there.
Smith’s half-court heave was an airball at the buzzer, giving this March Madness a rare dramatic finish in a tough, physical contest with players repeatedly hitting the floor.
Sharpe had a scoring flurry early in the second half to give Houston some separation. His 3-pointer at the 16:14 mark made it 40-32. After Purdue trimmed the deficit to four, Uzan made two 3s to give Houston a 10-point lead.
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2025 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (1) Houston 60–62 |
| 2024 |
Lost National Championship vs. (1) Connecticut 60–75 |
| 2023 |
Lost First Round vs. (16) Farleigh Dickinson 58–63 |
| 2022 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (15) Saint Peter's, 64–67 |
| 2021 |
Lost First Round vs. (13) North Texas, 69–78 (OT) |
| 2019 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (1) Virginia, 75–80 (OT) |
| 2018 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (3) Texas Tech, 65–78 |
| 2017 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (1) Kansas, 66–98 |
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