{"id":87376,"date":"2025-04-05T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/to-no-ones-surprise-purdues-braden-smith-wins-the-cousy-award-as-nations-top-point-guard\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:21:27","slug":"to-no-ones-surprise-purdues-braden-smith-wins-the-cousy-award-as-nations-top-point-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/to-no-ones-surprise-purdues-braden-smith-wins-the-cousy-award-as-nations-top-point-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"To no one\u2019s surprise, Purdue\u2019s Braden Smith wins the Cousy Award as nation\u2019s top point guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As should have been expected, Purdue\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/braden-smith-11729\/\">Braden Smith<\/a><\/strong> has won the 2025 Cousy Award, given annually to the nation\u2019s top point guard.<\/p>\n<p>Already honored as a first-team All-American, Sporting News, The AP, USBWA and NABC. He\u2019s one of four finalists for the Naismith Award and Wooden national player-of-the-year awards.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, the Big Ten Player-of-the-Year, averaged 15.8 points and 8.7 assists as a junior, leading Purdue to 24 wins and its sixth Sweet 16 out of the past eight NCAA Tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/purdue-boilermakers\/news\/to-no-ones-surprise-purdues-braden-smith-wins-the-cousy-award-as-nations-top-point-guard\/\">To no one\u2019s surprise, Purdue\u2019s Braden Smith wins the Cousy Award as nation\u2019s top point guard<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As should have been expected, Purdue\u2019s Braden Smith has won the 2025 Cousy Award, given&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}