Braden Smith was named the 2025 Big Ten Player of the Year, marking the third straight year a Purdue player has won the award. Here's everything he had to say in his Big Ten Network interview on Tuesday.

Braden Smith missed the final five games of the season due to a personal matter, and he will count $19.75 million against the cap.

Purdue’s Braden Smith was named the Big Ten player of the year and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo coach of the year by coaches and the media in voting coordinated by the conference. Smith and Izzo won the same honors from The Associated Press on Tuesday.