The team played their home games in Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana and were members of the Big Ten Conference.

4 seed in the Midwest Region where they beat Vermont and Iowa State to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.

Purdue was picked to finish second in the Big Ten in preseason polls by Sports Illustrated[3] and USA Today.

[4] Caleb Swanigan was named to the preseason All-Big Ten team as voted by a panel of conference media.

He knew other guards had official visits to the university scheduled, and wanted to accept his offer while he had the chance.