Insider:To hell with what NBA mock drafts say, Braden Smith was best player on ... Rutgers freshmen Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey entered Thursday's game averaging a combined 40.1 points.

Timeout, Scarlet Knights. Braden Smith has 11 points and 10 assists. Ace Bailey has 14 points on 4-of-7 on 3-pointers. Rutgers is 7-of-16 from deep, Purdue 3-of-19. Caleb Furst is up to 3 fouls ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 16 points apiece ... They opened the season on a four-game win streak. Freshman sensation Ace Bailey led Rutgers (8-8, 1-4) with 17 ...

Scouts consider Purdue basketball’s Braden Smith ... reserved for Scarlet Knights freshman wunderkinds Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper. Smith, though, left no doubt as to the identity of the ...

Trey Kaufman-Renn added 16 points for the 20th-ranked Boilermakers (12-4, 4-1), who shot 50 percent from the field in a slowly-paced game. Kaufman-Renn dunked off a Smith pass with 4:18 left that gave ...

Cam Heide was flying high for an alley-oop pass from Braden Smith in ... with authority over Rutgers freshman Ace Bailey. That dunk also came off a Smith assist. Heide is averaging 5.4 points ...

When junior guard Braden Smith is in attack mode ... on the job after he recruited prized freshmen Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. But the Scarlet Knights haven't come together the way many thought ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn scored ... Freshman sensation Ace Bailey led Rutgers (8-8, 1-4) with 17 points. Tyson Acuff added 10 points. This was the second ...

The Boilermakers (12-4, 4-1) host Nebraska on Sunday. Braden Smith has 11 points and 10 assists. Ace Bailey has 14 points on 4-of-7 on 3-pointers. Rutgers is 7-of-16 from deep, Purdue 3-of-19. Caleb ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn scored ... Freshman sensation Ace Bailey led Rutgers (8-8, 1-4) with 17 points. Tyson Acuff added 10 points. This was the second ...