That's certainly how Smith's 2024-25 season felt. Even those with sky-high expectations for the junior guard walked away ...

Braden Smith's stellar career at Purdue through three seasons has prompted some to ask one question as we enter college basketball's offseason: Will he return? The junior guard still has one year ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Purdue point guard Braden Smith is trying to get through the handshake line, trying to get back to the locker room, to his team — his guys — after pulling and tugging and ...

For someone who pursues perfection, Braden Smith sometimes needs to be pushed. His trust in others is reciprocated back to him. But when shots aren't falling, he'll still make the right reads and ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Purdue star guard Braden Smith's parents both played college basketball at Arkansas Tech, meeting for the first time in the training room. Ginny and Dustin Smith spent countless ...

Braden Smith has improved through all three of his seasons at Purdue. He looks like a legitimate NBA prospect as a junior and has a good chance of getting drafted if he declares this summer.

Purdue will once again have a national player of the year front-runner and the best returning guard in the sport as Braden Smith announced that he will be back for his senior season. The winner ...

Bruce Parkinson knows good point guard play when he sees it, and from the stands at Westfield High School in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Purdue’s all-time assists leader — at least at the ...

Braden Smith has been fighting demons well beyond the football field. The Colts right tackle revealed that his obsessive compulsive disorder, combined with religious scrupulosity, forced him to ...

In the second half of last season, the Indianapolis Colts placed veteran offensive tackle Braden Smith on the reserve/non-football illness list due to what was described as a personal matter.

Erickson about an internal battle Smith was close to losing, and how he found his way out of the darkness. “I was physically present, but I was nowhere to be found,’’ Braden told Erickson in ...

Braden Smith is a guard for the Purdue Boilermakers and plays as a junior in the 2024-2025 season. He hails from Westfield, Indiana, and attended Westfield High School. During the 2022-23 season ...