Purdue basketball All-American Braden Smith thanks coach Matt Painter, teammates, fans

Braden Smith played four seasons for the  Purdue Boilermakers , starting 149 games in which they went 117-32, reaching a national championship game, an Elite 8, and a Sweet 16. The consensus All-American scored 1,932 points with 673 rebounds, 249 steals and an NCAA-record 1,103 assists. That works out to averages of 13.

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4 assists. On Saturday, April 4, he took to social media to thank his coaches, teammates and fans for the past four years. "Just want to start this off with a thank you.

Cant be more thankful for an opportunity to be apart of something special for 4 years with a group of very special people around me. From the coaching staff to my teammates all 4 years. Thank you to the coaches for trusting the small kid from Westfield that “wasn’t” good enough to play college basketball .