Braden Smith has been fighting demons well beyond the football field. The Colts right tackle revealed that his obsessive compulsive disorder, combined with religious scrupulosity, forced him to ...

“Running it back one last time,” Braden Smith wrote. One short sentence that inspired a lot of conversation and even more reaction. Purdue fans celebrated. Their rivals took notice. But ...

Erickson about an internal battle Smith was close to losing, and how he found his way out of the darkness. “I was physically present, but I was nowhere to be found,’’ Braden told Erickson in ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Purdue point guard Braden Smith is trying to get through the handshake line, trying to get back to the locker room, to his team — his guys — after pulling and tugging and ...

Braden Smith had a banner season for Purdue basketball, proving his statistics as the Boilermaker point guard in his first two seasons weren't solely a product of having Zach Edey as a teammate.

Half of those are Purdue players. The latest coup for Matt Painter and his staff came Monday: Braden Smith, the star guard who would have commanded big money on the transfer market or could have ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Purdue star guard Braden Smith's parents both played college basketball at Arkansas Tech, meeting for the first time in the training room. Ginny and Dustin Smith spent countless ...

Bruce Parkinson knows good point guard play when he sees it, and from the stands at Westfield High School in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Purdue’s all-time assists leader — at least at the ...

Braden Smith has improved through all three of his seasons at Purdue. He looks like a legitimate NBA prospect as a junior and has a good chance of getting drafted if he declares this summer.

Braden Smith had a banner season for Purdue basketball, proving his statistics as the Boilermaker point guard in his first two seasons weren't solely a product of having Zach Edey as a teammate.

WEST LAFAYETTE — Braden Smith swiped the ball, took off the other way and passed to Trey Kaufman-Renn cutting towards the basket on Smith's right. Kaufman-Renn wouldn't score off a Smith assist ...