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Newman found that with the Hilltoppers, averaging 10.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game for a team that lost its final four regular-season games before catching fire as the No. 3 seed in the Conference USA tournament and earning the automatic bid with wins over New Mexico State, Middle Tennessee and UTEP.
“I’m still guarding the best perimeter (players) every night in the C-USA,” said Newman, who scored 15 points in both the semifinal and championship games of the conference tournament. “B
After graduating from Purdue, Newman found an opportunity at Western Kentucky, where he was reunited with Steve Lutz, who coached Newman as an assistant at Purdue before taking the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi job in 2021 and leading the Islanders to the NCAA tournament last season.
“I was looking for an opportunity to win and an opportunity to contribute to that,” Newman said. “And to get back to the tournament and have a little bit more influence
INDIANAPOLIS — Khristian Lander and Brandon Newman, one-time rivals at Indiana and Purdue, respectively, were seated just a few feet from one another in a Gainbridge Fieldhouse locker room on Thursday morning.
These two are teammates now, leaders on a No. 15 seed Western Kentucky team that will be big underdogs on Friday in a first round NCAA tournament South Region game against No. 2 seed Marquette, a fashionable Final Four pick led by coach Shaka Smart. But the journey that brought Lander and Newman here together, in this locker room and with this team, have prepared them for the stage they will see on Friday.”
The 6-5 Newman, a former Valparaiso High School star who was runner-up for IndyStar Mr. Basketball in 2019 to Center Grove’s Tracye Jackson-Davis, spent four years at Purdue (he redshirted his first year), where he started most of his redshirt freshman year, then saw his playing time diminish, though he remained one of the team’s top defensive players for the next two seasons.
would tell (a younger self) to go where you know you can make an impact and where the coaching staff knows you and loves you,” Newman said Thursday. “And don’t get too high or low on yourself. Just keep working and be ready to go. College is tough but you just have to stay resilient.”
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — There was a time when a lot of the Indiana recruiting talk swirled around Khristian Lander. Former coach Archie Miller had recruited three straight Indiana Mr. Basketball winners — Romeo Langford, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Anthony Leal — but it was Lander who was the most intriguing.
The smooth left-handed point guard from Evansville, Ind., was considered one of the best players in the country. He had five stars next to his name, and there were some who considered him a potential one-and-done type of talent.● Charles Barkley upset about MVP to LeBron James:
“I only had two MVPs on my list, Nikola Jokic and Stephen Curry…” Both players were the standouts for their selection. “Without Jokic, Serbia wouldn’t have gotten as far as he did and without Steph, USA wouldn’t have brought home the
After graduating from Purdue, Newman found an opportunity at Western Kentucky, where he was reunited with Steve Lutz, who coached Newman as an assistant at Purdue before taking the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi job in 2021 and leading the Islanders to the NCAA tournament last season.
“I was looking for an opportunity to win and an opportunity to contribute to that,” Newman said. “And to get back to the tournament and have a little bit more influence.”
The 6-5 Newman, a former Valparaiso High School star who was runner-up for IndyStar Mr. Basketball in 2019 to Center Grove’s Tracye Jackson-Davis, spent four years at Purdue (he redshirted his first year), where he started most of his redshirt freshman year, then saw his playing time diminish, though he remained one of the team’s top defensive players for the next two seasons.
would tell (a younger self) to go where you know you can make an impact and where the coaching staff knows you and loves you,” Newman said Thursday. “And don’t get too high or low on yourself. Just keep working and be ready to go. College is tough but you just have to stay resilient.”