Purdue is heading to Omaha earlier than the official begin of the 2024-25 school basketball common season. On Friday, the Boilermakers introduced that they’re going to be taking part in Creighton in a charity exhibition sport this yr.
Purdue and Creighton will play on Saturday, Oct. 26 at CHI Well being Heart in Omaha. Tipoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET and broadcast info shall be made accessible at a later date.
This marks the second consecutive yr through which Purdue’s males’s basketball crew has participated in a charity exhibition sport. Final yr, the Boilers performed Arkansas in Fayetteville.
“The sport will profit the United Means of the Midlands Catastrophe Aid Fund after harmful tornadoes ravaged Omaha and surrounding areas on April twenty sixth, 2024,” the discharge from PurdueSports.com reads. “The tornadoes, together with Nebraska’s first EF-4 twister in nearly 10 years, brought about an estimated 2.1 billion {dollars} price of injury.”
Purdue is coming off a yr through which it went 34-5, profitable a second straight Massive Ten common season title and reaching the Nationwide Championship Sport for the primary time since 1969.
“We’re excited to be touring to Creighton and taking part in the Bluejays for an important trigger to begin our season,” Purdue coach Matt Painter mentioned. “The Omaha space was ravaged by tornadoes in late April and we hope that this charity sport will proceed to assist catastrophe aid to the area. Creighton is an impressive program led by an impressive coach in Coach McDermott and this sport will actually assist us put together for the season, a lot the identical approach the Arkansas charity sport a yr in the past helped us.”
Creighton concluded the 2024-25 marketing campaign with a 25-10 file, ending second within the Massive East standings. The Bluejays reached the Candy 16 spherical of the NCAA Event.
“We’re thrilled to host Purdue for an exhibition sport,” mentioned Creighton coach Greg McDermott. “Coming off a visit to the Nationwide Championship sport, Coach Painter will as soon as once more have among the best groups within the nation. It is going to be an amazing alternative for us to play high-level competitors as we put together for a top-notch non-conference schedule and the at all times troublesome, BIG EAST. I can not thank Coach Painter sufficient for bringing his crew to Omaha. It’s a distinctive occasion that our followers will really get pleasure from all whereas supporting the United Means of the Midlands Catastrophe Aid Fund.”
The Boilermakers have a loaded nonconference schedule in 2024-25. Purdue may have video games towards a number of high quality opponents, together with Texas A&M, Alabama, Auburn, Marquette and North Carolina State.
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