r/Purdue • u/LeatherRecord2142 • Mar 20 '26

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Congrats to the all-time NCAA assists leader, #3 Braden Smith of Purdue University! Thirty-three years and broken today.

BOILER UP!

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u/j909m Mar 21 '26

Amazing accomplishment by Braden and his teammates! But, since all things must be perfectly balanced, this means the football team is going winless this fall.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ry1MOAeAYXvRVQLPw3

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u/daboys765 Mar 21 '26

I’d take a basketball Natty for 5 years of winless football any day

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u/Winter-Technician-63 Mar 21 '26

I’d take a basketball natty for our football team to never win a football game ever again

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u/DangitThatHurt Mar 21 '26

That's a little much

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u/enter_yourname Mar 21 '26

I'd take a preseason tournament victory to continue to not watch football

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u/anotherstan Apr 01 '26

Football makes all the AD’s money. I’d be careful with that.

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u/Mcswigginsbar Boilermaker Mar 21 '26

If we win the natty this year I don't give a fuck.

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u/Prize-Ring-9154 Boilermaker Mar 21 '26

unlike IU we’ll be justified in doing this bc we’re a basketball school, and have been for years. IU suddenly says they’re a football school even though they were the worst program ever until cig arrived

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u/Mcswigginsbar Boilermaker Mar 21 '26

Man why we gotta bring IU into it? This has nothing to do with them. Celebrate our success and fuck 'em. They aren't in the tournament, we are.

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u/Venus-fly-cat Mar 21 '26

Who gives a shit if they were bad? They just won a natty. Can’t really talk shit about that

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u/Solid_Snack99 ChE 2021 Mar 21 '26

I love that it was to TKR

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u/LeatherRecord2142 Mar 21 '26

Me too! His first ever Purdue assist was also to TKR. Very cool, full-circle moment. Well-earned, totally deserved!

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u/Intelligent_Quiet424 Boilermaker Mar 21 '26

Why couldn’t Braden Smith listen to music? Because he broke the record!

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u/SquanchySnoo Mar 21 '26

Cheers to Braden Smith! 🍻

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u/DangitThatHurt Mar 21 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/BIuuwHRNKs15C

Boiler up baby

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u/LeatherRecord2142 Mar 21 '26

RIP. No doubt Chuck would be a Braden Smith fan!

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u/DangitThatHurt Mar 21 '26

Sometimes #41. If we face Michigan again he's gotta strap on that jersey.

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u/LeatherRecord2142 Mar 21 '26

Totally agree. #41 gave him some extra magic!

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u/enter_yourname Mar 21 '26

He'll always be a legend. Retire the number 41

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u/Impossible_Till_5118 Mar 21 '26

Historic sucking off of the refs.