{"id":10276,"date":"2023-11-29T05:57:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T10:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=10276"},"modified":"2023-11-29T05:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T10:57:31","slug":"1-boilers-return-home-for-big-win-over-texas-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/1-boilers-return-home-for-big-win-over-texas-southern\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 Boilers return home for big win over Texas Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After beating three teams in Honolulu last week, all of them ranked in the top 11 in the country, the Purdue Boilermakers moved into a nearly unanimous #1 position in the AP rankings Monday, taking 60 of 63 first-place votes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bradensmithtexassouthern.jpg?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10277\" style=\"width:415px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bradensmithtexassouthern-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bradensmithtexassouthern-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bradensmithtexassouthern-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bradensmithtexassouthern-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bradensmithtexassouthern-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bradensmithtexassouthern-scaled.jpg?w=1707&amp;ssl=1 1707w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bradensmithtexassouthern-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Braden Smith led the Boilers Tuesday night in scoring. (Photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They celebrated those 60 votes with a 32-point win over Texas Southern in the 60th straight sellout of Mackey Arena Tuesday night, winning 99-67.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Braden Smith led the Boilers in scoring with 19 points, missing a triple-double by one rebound after dishing out ten assists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reigning National Player of the Year Zach Edey had 15 points and six boards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Boilermakers will begin their Big Ten season with a late-night game in Evanston against the 5-1 Northwestern Wildcats. That game can be heard live on 92.7 FM, WZBD. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After beating three teams in Honolulu last week, all of them ranked in the top 11 in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,35,26],"class_list":["post-10276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-purdue","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Purdue-Texas-Southern-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}