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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 Wolfpack eventually became the sixth 11-seed to reach the Final Four. The Final Four consisted of UConn (second consecutive appearance), Alabama (their first Final Four appearance in program history), NC State (first appearance since 1983), and Purdue (first appearance since 1980).
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.
Purdue University's next Final Four appearance after this year would occur in 2024. Five coaches from teams in the Eastern bracket ( Jim Boeheim , John Thompson , Lute Olson , Rick Pitino and Rollie Massimino ) would later win their first (and in Pitino's case, the first of more than one) national championship.
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.
Indiana and Purdue played against each other in men's basketball for the first time on March 2, 1901. The two teams have played at least once a year since then, and until 2001 they usually met twice a year. Purdue leads the all-time series 126–92. Purdue has won the Big Ten Conference regular season title 26 times, and Indiana has won it 22.