Rivers Knight committed to the Boilermakers on Sunday. He is from North Carolina but goes to school in LaPorte at La Lumiere.

The Boilermakers are set to lose Trey Kaufman-Renn and Oscar Cluff at season's end, and Knight provides protection for possible transfer portal players.

Purdue men’s basketball will send off at least two big men after this season, with Trey Kaufman-Renn and Oscar Cluff completing their college careers.

So the Boilermakers’ 2026 recruiting class had to include some size. Daniel Jacobsen and Raleigh Burgess project to remain in the frontcourt after the coming season. Yet with players such as Jack Benter stretching a bit to qualify as 4s in the season ahead, size remained an unchecked box for this class.

Until Sunday, that is, when La Lumiere power fo

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