Before Purdue’s trip to Bloomington on Sunday, Purdue head coach Matt Painter was appointed to the coach’s surveillance list of the year of mid-season Werner 2025.
Painter is one of the 15 coaches named on the surveillance list alongside Bruce Pearl (Auburn), Ben McCollum (Drake), Jon Scheyer (Duke), Todd Golden (Florida), Kelvin Sampson (Houston), Pat Kelsey ( Louisville), Penny Hardaway (Memphis), Dusty May (Michigan), Tom Izzo (Michigan State), Dennis Gates (Missouri), Richard Pitino (New Mexico), Rick Pitino (St. John’s), Grant McCasland (Texas Tech) and Greg Gard (Wisconsin).
The current Purdue record is at 19-8 and is two games in advance in the big ten season just after losing 2x national player of the year, Zach Edey.
Purdue comes out of a season when he won his second consecutive conference title and went to the national title match where he lost to Uconn. It was Purdue’s first trip in the Final Four in almost half a century. Painter has a record of 491-216 in 21 seasons. This is currently the 20th season of Painter in Purdue where it has a file of 466-211.
