After a season that could be described as frustrating, see how we would like Raleigh Burgess to bounce back in his sophomore year. Coming into the 2024-25 Purdue basketball season, we knew that there would be a log jam of players trying to fight for minutes.
When his senior season ended, Caleb Furst packed up his locker and exited Mackey Arena as the all-time winningest player in the history of Purdue basketball.
Purdue’s lone senior reflects on the final chapter to his Purdue career The Purdue Boilermakers had just one senior on this years team in Caleb Furst. As strong of a start to a career as a true freshman has had at Purdue was fraught with uneven production and difficulty finding playing time during his sophomore and junior season behind Zach Edey.
Kasparas Jakucionis drilled a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 39 seconds left to highlight a late nine-point run that lifted Illinois to an 88-80 Big Ten victory over No. 18 Purdue.
There was a little more excitement from the crowd when Caleb Furst's was name was called during the starting lineup introductions. Cheers were louder each time the senior forward collected a rebound.
The NIL & Transfer Portal Era of the NCAA shows a lot about who people are, and Caleb Furst may be one of a kind. In Caleb Furst’s Freshman and Sophomore years, the Mr.
Eighteen made three-pointers. A Caleb Furst alley-oop. A 21-5 run to start the second half. The second 100-point performance of the season. Hell, the fans received free French fries after a pair of missed free throws from Jamichael Davis.
Caleb Furst ended his career at Mackey Arena on a high note. The senior forward helped led the Boilermakers to a 100-71 win over Rutgers on Tuesday night, which also served as Senior Night.
On Tuesday night, Caleb Furst will step onto the floor at Mackey Arena for the final time in a Purdue uniform. The senior forward's journey in West Lafayette is coming to a conclusion, and it had plenty of twists and turns along the way.
Emotions can sometimes get the best of competitors during a rivalry game. That appeared to be the case on Sunday, when Indiana's Anthony Leal appeared to kick Purdue's Caleb Furst below the belt while the two fought for a rebound.
Things got pretty spicy pretty early in Sunday afternoon's rivalry clash between Indiana and No. 13 Purdue. Early in the first half, a tangle up between Hoosiers guard Anthony Leal and Purdue forward Caleb Furst resulted in a potential ejection situation — though that wasn't the end result.
Caleb Furst has cemented his spot in the Purdue record books ... at least for now. On Friday night, the senior forward became the winningest player in program history after the seventh-ranked Boilermakers defeated USC 90-72 at Mackey Arena.
Around this last time last year, Caleb Furst's minutes were limited. A good player on a great team, it was difficult for the 6-foot-10 forward to get time on the court.
Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Braden Smith dished 13 assists and No. 7 Purdue nearly led wire-to-wire in a 90-72 rout of visiting Southern California on Friday in West Lafayette, Ind.
Thievery had never really been Caleb Furst's thing on a basketball court in his first three years at Purdue. Yet, this season, the senior forward has turned into West Lafayette's version of Robin Hood.
Caleb Furst still has a lot of basketball remaining in his final season at Purdue, but Friday night does close at least one chapter for the senior forward.
Purdue's offense was so exciting in the first half on Friday night that senior forward Caleb Furst wanted in on the action. Late in the opening half, Furst threw down a lob pass from Braden Smith for an easy alley-oop for the Boilermakers in Friday's game against Michigan.
The play of junior guard Braden Smith has stolen most of the headlines in Purdue's recent six-game winning streak. The preseason Big Ten Player of the Year has played some of the best basketball of his career over the last three weeks, providing the Boilermakers with a major spark.
Boilers overcome a 22 point first half and an 8 point deficit behind Furst’s career high Caleb Furst may have played the best of his career as a Boilermaker at the right time for a struggling team against the Washington Huskies to keep Purdue afloat in the first half.
Join us before tonight’s late night tipoff won’t you? Purdue basketball is on a five game win streak and Casey called it on the previous episode. Well, not exactly, because he said it would be a six game winning streak heading into the Oregon game and Purdue still has one game to go before they get there.
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Caleb Furst stands tall and speaks comfortably and confidently when he talks about the role he played last season. It can't be a particularly fun conversation for him, but the Purdue senior forward answers every question about his reduction in playing time last season.