October 28, 2025
By Kyle Boone, Gary Parrish & Matt Norlander, CBS Sports: College basketball’s talent ecosystem is unusually robust this season across teams and conferences and ranging from players aged 18 to 29. Yes, 29 years old. But no team this season has the top-end talent — or in the case of Purdue, talents — as do the Boilermakers.
Two Purdue players landed in the top 10 of our annual preseason ranking of the Top 100 and 1 Players for the 2025-26 season featured below, including star guard Braden Smith, the CBS Sports preseason Player of the Year, who claims the No. 1 spot.
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