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Today’s Daily is written by Tristan Freeman. Follow him on X.com/Twitter @hoopsnut351.

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1. Big Ten media day superlatives

The Big Ten held its men’s portion of college hoops media day on Thursday — and all eyes were on Purdue.

It has the unanimous preseason POY in Braden Smith, and first-team All-Big Ten forward Trey Kaufman-Renn, who did his part to rave about his team: “I can’t see another team that has everything that we have, and everything that we have going for us this year.”

Perhaps it surprised the senior forward that Purdue wasn’t the unanimous team to beat in the preseason poll.

Michigan earned a couple of first-place votes and took the No. 2 spot. It also had some hype of its own thanks to a trio of new forwards, led by 2-time American DPOY Yaxel Lendeborg, plus Aday Mara and Morez Johnson.

Michigan coach Dusty is high on his big men, going so far to say that there’s a chance he plays all three together (), since Lendeborg is “a guard” who “guards point guards better than 5s.”

Perhaps the most notable results was from the team picked to finish 11th.

Washington brought in a standout transfer class, including two starting guards from USC and two former Conference Player of the Year winners. However, they’ll be without Jacob Ognacevic, a 6-8 Lipscomb transfer forward who averaged 20 ppg and was the ASUN POY.

That hurts the Huskies' depth, as he was one of their proven frontcourt players. They still have Rutgers transfer center Lathan Sommerville, along with Hannes Steinbach, one of the top incoming international prospects. He’s now set to get plenty of minutes in the frontcourt through the non-con, and Washington will need him to be an impact contributor for them to have via NCAAT hopes.

Other Big Ten notes:

• Michigan State coach Tom Izzo plans on having a 10-man rotation again.

• As to why he’s landing more international players, Illinois coach Brad Underwood of Illinois was blunt: “they care more.”

• UCLA Eric Dailey Jr. has a knee injury and will likely not play in the Oct. 17 exhibition game vs San Diego State.

• Indiana coach Darian DeVries said Elon transfer Nick Dorn is close to returning from injury.

• Penn State freshman guard Kayden Mingo will be given the “keys to the program.” 

• Big Ten President Tony Petitti prefers a “straight seeding” approach to future NCAA Tournaments.

2. A big surprise in for American preseason POY

Everyone knew Braden Smith would be the Big Ten’s preseason POY. So much for any drama from that league.

It could learn something from the American.

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