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WEST LAFAYETTE – Welcome to another season of Purdue basketball.

Last season was arguably the best in the history of the program, featuring a national championship game appearance, a national player of the year in Zach Edey, a Big Ten title, and five weeks spent as the No. 1 team in the country.

Tonight, with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi invading Mackey Arena, an exciting new chapter begins for the Boilermakers. Most teams would probably be in for some lean times following the departure of maybe the greatest player in program history, but Purdue coach Matt Painter has spent two years preparing for this eventuality and appears ready to weather the loss of Edey and keep the Boilermakers near the top of the Big Ten.

With Braden Smith running the show and embracing a bigger role in the scoring column, Trey Kaufman-Renn poised to be one of the Big Ten's premier big men and Fletcher Loyer rounding into a true three-levels scorer, the Boilermakers need only for their relatively inexperienced supporting cast to hold up its end of the bargain to once again be on the short list for a top 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Luckily for Purdue, that supporting seems be ready for its turn in the limelight. After an offseason spent assuming last year's March Madness darlings, Cam Heide and Myles Colvin would likely start and play defining roles this season, it appears they will be relegated to the bench again in favor of freshmen wings Gicarri Harris and CJ Cox, both of whom appear physically ready to handle the rigors of the Big Ten and provide the shooting and on-ball defensive prowess necessary to thrive in Painter's system. Cox in particular seems set to play a much larger role than was expected this summer – the 6-foot-2 combo guard, who had no high-major scholarship offers other than Purdue, might well reprise the role Lance Jones played last season.

In the paint, the Boilermakers have a wealth of options and much will depend on who gels the best with Kaufman-Renn, who will play power forward for the second straight season after starting his career as a center. Freshman Daniel Jacobsen, an extremely exciting rim protector who stands 7-3, seems to be in the driver's seat to start next to Kaufman-Renn, with Fort Wayne native Caleb Furst and 7-2 Will Berg likely to provide depth. It is also notable that Purdue will not redshirt 6-11 freshman Raleigh Burgess this season, suggesting he could force his way into minutes, as well. It's best to view these first few weeks of the season as live tryouts for minutes at center. All four options could well see the floor tonight.

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi is coming off a season in which it went 21-12 and finished second in the Southland Conference. It was the Islanders' first season under coach Jim Shaw, who replaced former Purdue assistant coach Steve Lutz after Lutz departed to take the head coaching job at Western Kentucky.

Shaw constructed a team that ranked 23rd in in opponent field-goal percentage last season and returns its top three scorers in 6-7 forward Garry Clark, 6-3 guard Dian Wright-Forde and 6-4 guard Jordan Roberts.

It is best to think of this game as not only the start of the 2024-25 season but as the beginning of a two-season journey that the Boilermakers believe could end in a national title. This is a reloading season and the youngsters will gain experience as the season goes on, potentially culminating in an eye-opening run to the NCAA Tournament's second weekend. Next season, nearly every key player on this roster could be back to make a run at the program's first national title. The growth process for this iteration of the Boilermakers begins in earnest tonight and could well culminate in April 2026.

Newcomer Steve Barrera and incumbents Jaime Arredondo, Alice Upshaw Hawkins and Don Clark were elected in the Corpus Christi ISD school board races, according to complete, unofficial returns.

The Corpus Christi Independent School District board of trustees is responsible for governing the school district, approving budgets, policies and procedures.

Four seats were open on the school board, including three at-large seats and one single-member district seat.

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Only three incumbent school board members ran to keep their seats — at-large candidates Clark and Upshaw Hawkins and District 2 candidate Arredondo. Current trustee Jane Bell did not run for reelection. Also on the ballot vying for at-large seats were Barrera, Michael Bergsma, J.R. De La Garza, Samuel Aundrá Fryer and Pooja Bindingnavele.

The three at-large candidates with the most votes won a seat on the board. Voters could pick up to three candidates.

Here's what percentage of the vote each candidate had in complete, unofficial returns:

Arredondo was challenged by candidate Penny Kaminski.

Here's what percentage of the vote each candidate had in complete, unofficial returns:

Bond for school consolidations, upgrades

A majority of voters opposed CCISD's $135.4 million bond proposal.

If approved, the bond package would fund a new consolidated Yeager Elementary School, a renovated and consolidated Houston Elementary School, fine arts improvements and additions and improvements to Haas Middle School and King, Moody and Veterans Memorial high schools.

But according to complete and unofficial returns, 61.90%, or 42,975 votes, were cast against the measure.

Results for the school board races and bond proposition will not be official until the election is certified.

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Before you vote, know where Corpus Christi ISD school board candidates stand on the issues

Coming off its first trip to the Final Four in 44 years, the Purdue Boilermakers embark on another season on Monday night against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Here's the latest on the point spread, with a good history on how the Boilermakers have fared against the number.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It's time to tip off another Purdue basketball season, and there's a lot to live up to after last season's run to the national championship game. The Boilermakers are back in action at Mackey Arena, taking on Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 6 p.m. ET

As expected the Boilermakers are a big favorite over the Islanders, who play in the Southland Conference and went 21-12 a year ago. According to the FanDuel.com gambling website, Purdue is a 22.5-point favorite and the over/under is 145.5.

Purdue finished 23-15-1 against the spread a year ago, and won and covered five straight NCAA Tournament games before losing to Connecticut in the national championship game.

We are all well aware that this is a different Purdue team, of course, without 7-foot-4 Zach Edey, the two-time national player of the year who's now in the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies. But these Boilermakers are also still very good, with a lot of returning starters and a bevy of young talent.

Paying attention to what the Boilermakers did in the nonconference season a year ago might have some bearing on what this season might be like. They were 9-2 against the spread and won all 11 games outside Big Ten play.

That's impressive.

Betting the Boilermakers even with big numbers is still usually a good thing. They were favored by 20 points or more four times last year, and won AND covered in all four games against Samford, Morehead State, Texas Southern and Jacksonville.

These two teams played in the 2006-07 season and Purdue won 79-61 as a 17.5-point favorite.

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Published Nov 4, 2024

TOM BREW

Tom Brew is an award-winning journalist who's worked at some America's finest newspapers, including the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Indianapolis Star. He also owns the book publishing company, Hilltop30 Publishing Group, and he has written four books and published 16 others.

Basketball begins again, as reigning NCAA runner-up Purdue opens its 2024-2025 season by hosting Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

DETAILS: Monday, Nov. 4, 2024 | 6 p.m. ET | TV: FOX (Kevin Kugler, Robbie Hummel) | Radio: Purdue Radio NetworkPURDUE (—): ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATSCORPUS CHRISTI (—): ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS

A FEW THINGS ABOUT PURDUE

• Purdue is retooling a bit after losing two-time Player-of-the-Year, but has an excellent three-man core to build around in juniors Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kaufman-Renn. Smith is the preseason Big Ten Player-of-the-Year.

• The Boilermakers were picked as the preseason favorite to win the newly expanded Big Ten. It would be their third title in as many years.

• Purdue lost a charity exhibition at Creighton and won a preseason game vs. Grand Valley State before this opener.

• Purdue hasn’t lost a November game since 2020 a run of 21 straight wins.

ABOUT THIS GAME

• This game was originally by former Purdue assistant coach Steve Lutz for last season after he left West Lafayette to coach the Islanders, but he left for Western Kentucky after a season and is now at Oklahoma State. It was postponed a year after Corpus Christi’s coaching change. Lutz’s daughter, Caroline, is a student at Purdue, part of the reason he wanted to play the game.

• Corpus Christi won 21 games last season under new coach Jim Shaw, who was previously on Lutz’s staff.

• Forward Owen Dease is an Evansville native who was a grassroots teammate of Purdue’s Fletcher Loyer with the Indy Heat program. Dease, a redshirt junior, averaged seven points last season.

Center Shilo Jackson is an Indianapolis native who attended junior college at Vincennes.

• Forward Garry Clark returns after averaging a team-best 13.2 points and 8.1 rebounds last season

THREE KEYS FOR PURDUE

GOLDANDBLACK.COM PREDICTION: PURDUE 94, CORPUS CHRISTI 56

Purdue has shown it can really score. The question lie in whether it can defend and rebound at the highest level. This isn’t the highest level, so neither concern should be exploitable in Game 1.

Polls will be open 7 a.m.-7 p.m., and curbside voting will be available at all locations.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Election Day is Tuesday.

Registered voters can cast their ballot from 7 a.m.-7 p.m at any of the locations listed below.

Curbside voting will be available at all locations; just call (361) 888-0303.

David Berlanga Community Center – 1513 2nd St. – (Head Start Room)

Banquete ISD – 4339 Fourth St. (Board Room)

Bishop Multipurpose Building – 115 S. Ash Ave.

Adkins Middle School – 2402 Ennis Joslin Rd. (Room A123)

Annaville Baptist Church – 4025 Violet Rd.

Blanche Moore Elementary – 6121 Durant Dr. (Fine Arts Area)

Bonilla Plaza – 2727 Morgan Ave. (Atrium)

Calallen ISD Administration Building – 4205 Wildcat Dr. (Board Room)

Calk-Wilson Elementary – 3925 Ft. Worth St. (Front Vestibule Area)

Calvary Chapel of the Coastlands – 3001 Rodd Field Rd.

Carroll High School – New Campus – 3202 Saratoga Blvd. (Teaching Theater Room D135)

Carroll High School – Old Campus – 5301 Weber Rd. (Front Lobby Entrance)

CCISD Admin. Building – 801 Leopard St. (Main Lobby)

Club Estates Elementary – 5222 Merganser Dr. (Music Room 37)

Corpus Christi Army Depot (NAS) – 308 Crecy St. (Subway Passageway)

Corpus Christi City Hall – 1201 Leopard St. (First Floor)

Cunningham Middle School – 2901 McArdle Rd. (Front Entrance Vestibule Area)

Deaf & Hard of Hearing Center – 5151 McArdle Rd.

Del Mar College – Center for Economic Development – 3209 S. Staples St.

Del Mar College –Heldenfels Admin. Building – 101 Baldwin Blvd.

Del Mar College – Oso Creek Campus – 7002 Yorktown Blvd. (Culinary Arts Building – Foyer)

Del Mar College – West Campus – 4101 Old Brownsville Rd.

Driscoll Middle School – 3501 Kenwood Dr. (Techdome Room)

Ethel Eyerly Senior Center – 654 Graham Rd.

Fannin Elementary – 2730 Gollihar Rd. (Cafeteria Front Area)

Flour Bluff ISD- Janet F Harte Public Library –2629 Waldron Rd.

Galvan Elementary – 3126 Masterson Dr. (Room 106)

Garden Senior Center – 5325 Greely

Gibson Elementary – 5723 Hampshire Rd. (Front Entrance Room 26)

Gloria Hicks Elementary – 3602 McArdle Rd. (Front Entrance Vestibule Area)

Grace Presbyterian Church – 6301 Yorktown Blvd.

Grant Middle School – 4350 Aaron Dr. (New Gymnasium)

Greenwood Senior Center – 4040 Greenwood

Hilltop Community Center – 11425 Leopard St. (SW #1)

Island Presbyterian Church (Annex) – 14030 Fortuna Bay Dr.

John F. Kennedy Elementary – 1102 Villarreal Rd.

King High School – 5225 Gollihar Rd. (Black Box Theater)

Kolda Elementary – 3730 Rodd Field Rd. (Front Entrance Vestibule Area)

Legacy Event Center – 5633 S. Staples Ste. 800

London ISD (Boardroom)– 1356 FM 43

Los Encinos Elementary – 1921 Dorado St. (Front Entrance Vestibule Area)

LULAC West Apartments – 10702 IH 37 (Community Center)

Luther Jones Elementary – 7533 Lipes Blvd. (Main Entrance -Foyer)

Metro-E Elementary – 1707 Ayers St. (Front Conference Room)

Miller High School – 1 Battlin Buc Blvd. (Metro Gymnasium Facing Palm St.)

Moody High School – 1818 Trojan Dr. (NJROTC Complex)

Northwest Senior Center (West Guth Park) – 9725 Up River Rd.

Nueces County ESD #4 – 5781 FM 666 (Training Room)

Oveal Williams Senior Center – 1414 Martin Luther King Dr.

Parkway Presbyterian Church – 3707 Santa Fe (Fellowship Hall)

Schanen Estates Elementary – 5717 Killarmet Dr. (Left side entrance – Lobby Area)

Second Baptist Church – 6701 S. Staples St.

Smith Elementary – 6902 Williams Dr. (Front Lobby Area) TAMUCC – 6300 Ocean Dr.

T.G. Allen Elementary – 1414 18th St. (Room 2)

Tuloso-Midway ISD AG complex – 10801 Haven Dr.

Veterans Memorial High School – 3750 Cimarron (Auditorium Entrance)

West Oso ISD – 5050 Rockford Dr. (Portable Room 35)

Windsor Park Elementary – 4525 S. Alameda (Front Vestibule Area)

Driscoll ISD – 425 W. Dragon St. (Guadalupe Hernandez Complex - Meeting Room)

Petronila Elementary – 2391 County Rd. 67

Ellis Memorial Library – 700 W. Ave. A

Dr. Hattie Martin Elementary - 701 N. First St.

Johnny Calderon Building – 710 E. Main St. (Auditorium)

River Hills Baptist Church – 16318 FM 624