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This was the last Purdue team to reach the Final Four until 2024. 1979–80 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings; Conf Overall Team W ...
The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a men's college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference.. Purdue basketball has the most Big Ten regular season championships with 26 conference titles, and in 2024 became the first Big Ten program to be ranked as the #1 team in America for three consecutive seasons.
This is a list of the seasons completed by the Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball. [1] [2] ... Team Overall Conference ... NCAA Division I Final Four: Lee Rose: 50 ...
The 1983–84 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team represented Purdue University as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 1983–84 college basketball season. The Boilermakers were led by fourth-year head coach Gene Keady and played their home games at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana .
The Big Ten has achieved this nine times, with one appearance later vacated, tying them with the Atlantic Coast Conference for non-vacated multi-team Final Four appearances. The Big East is the only conference to have three teams in the Final Four, which was in 1985.
Here’s a look at what most of the 1980 Purdue men’s basketball team is up to since that magical Final Four run 44 years ago.
In head coach Lee Rose's first season at Purdue, where he introduced a slowed-down, tempo-controlled style of play, he led the Boilers to a Big Ten Conference co-title, along with Iowa and the eventual NCAA Champion, Ervin Johnson-led Michigan State. With only a 40 team NCAA Tournament field in 1979, the Boilermakers were forced to enter the ...
Three teams - Drake, Purdue and Trinity University - made their tournament debuts. While Drake and Purdue made the Final Four in their first appearances, Trinity, an independent school from San Antonio, did not win their regional quarterfinal game against Texas A&M.