Michigan at Purdue: Storylines, odds, how to watch info with Boilermakers as slight home favorite

No program has won more Big Ten games across the past decade than the Boilermakers .

And Purdue and Michigan are the last two Big Ten teams to reach the NCAA championship game.

Two of the conferences most efficient and compelling offenses go to work for a national audience at Mackey Arena.

Most of the premier college basketball action is on Saturday, so heres our Friday night college basketball appetizer.

Sometimes, the first course is kind of mild a basket of bread and a clump of butter.

This is way more of a calamari and tuna tartare situation.

Michigan is a blast, one of the only teams in college basketball that still has more makes than misses.

Purdue just put together a seven-game winning streak, highlighted by a ranked road win at Oregon, before falling by three to Ohio State on Tuesday.

Both teams are near the top of the Big Ten.

A win could be the fulcrum for either sides conference run.

Advertisement Michigan puts a lot of skill on the floor.

Yale transfer Danny Wolf is a tremendous passing big man and a walking double-double.

Fifth-year Russian big man Vladislav Goldin has spectacular 64.6/56.3 shooting splits thus far.

Tre Donaldson and Nimari Burnett are both sharp 3-point shooters.

On the downside, theyre susceptible to turnover runs, with Wolf averaging 3.7 giveaways per game in conference play, and opponents are getting to the line too frequently.

But this is largely a fun squad, coming in at 14-4, with all of their losses by one possession.

Purdue has endured the second-toughest schedule in college basketball, according to Basketball Reference.

The Boilermakers had a particularly audacious opening wins over then-No.

2 Alabama and a good Ole Miss team, losses to Texas A&M, Marquette and the wagon that is Auburn .

Theyve earned their spot at 11th in the poll.

Matt Painter has these guys playing slowly, down to 326th in shot tries.

But theyre efficient in the paint and respectable from distance.

In his last eight games, junior playmaker Braden Smith is averaging 18 points, 9.6 dimes and 2.6 steals.

The Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year is looking the part of late.

And Purdues nexus, Trey Kaufman-Renn , has upped his scoring output in each of the last four.

He went 11-for-16 against the Buckeyes Tuesday.

Purdue has won three straight head-to-head meetings.

It leads the all-time series, 69-63.

Michigan at Purdue odds (Photo of Matt Painter and Trey Kaufman-Renn: Soobum Im / Getty Images).

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