Purdue Set to Host Boilermaker Invitational

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – With weather expected to move in Sunday, the Purdue Men’s Golf Invitational will be moved up a day, now being contested Friday afternoon and Saturday.
 
Purdue will welcome 12 other teams to Ackerman-Allen Golf Course with the teams playing 18 holes on Friday afternoon and then 36 holes on Saturday. Action gets underway at 2 p.m. ET (shotgun start) and then at 9 a.m. ET, on Saturday (shotgun start).
 
The event is the final regular-season tournament for the Boilermakers, welcoming four other teams ranked in the top 75 to West Lafayette. The Boilermakers are looking for their first team title since 2011, while another team in the field, Kent State, was the 2021 champion. No. 11-ranked Oklahoma is making their fourth appearance in the event, finishing third in 2019. The Sooners reached match play as the No. 2 seed, at the NCAA Championships a year ago, losing to eventual runner-up Arizona State in the quarterfinals.
 
THE FIELD (Golfstat Rankings / as of March 24, 2023)
11           Oklahoma
38           Purdue
72           Kent State
73           Wisconsin
75           Rutgers
111         Illinois State
145         Ball State
159         Western Kentucky
176         Butler
181         Southern Illinois
190         Loyola Chicago
217         Eastern Michigan
244         IUPUI
 
LAST TIME OUT
Purdue is coming off an eighth-place showing at the Calusa Cup – a tournament that featured four of the top-five ranked teams in the country. The Boilermakers were led by Herman Sekne with a T-20^th finish, while Kent Hsiao placed tied for 22^nd.   
 
TEAM NOTES

• Purdue has finished in the top five of five of its eight tournaments played this season. Purdue is on track to make NCAA Regionals for the eighth time in nine regionals under head coach Rob Bradley. The Boilermakers are comfortably in the NCAA Regional field right now, at 38^th nationally in the Golfstat national rankings.
• Purdue’s best team round average is the final round, over four shots better than the second round and five shots better than round one.
• Six different players have shot a round in the 60s this season.
• Just 10 of Purdue’s 23 rounds have been even- or under par this year, with just two rounds in…