Purdue basketball fell short of its Big Ten championship expectations last season but still made a Sweet Sixteen run behind its stars.

Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn return and were picked by the USA TODAY Network to be first team all-Big Ten.

The Boilermakers will again have competition to win the Big Ten, and weren't a unanimous No. 1.

ROSEMONT, Illinois ― Braden Smith racked up nearly every postseason honor possible a season ago.

Now the challenge for Purdue basketball 's senior point guard is to do it again.

It's no surprise preseason prognostications think Smith can.

Big Ten media members from the USA TODAY Network selected Smith as the conference's preseason Player of the Year. Smith also received the same recognition from the Big Ten Conference, which put out its own

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