Robbie Hummel

Playing 30.3 minutes per game, he averaged 15.7 points (2nd on team), 6.9 rebounds (1st), 1.1 steals, 1 block, and 2.1 assists, while shooting 45.6 percent from the floor and led the Big Ten at 90.2 percent from the line, while also leading the nation amongst players at the forward position.

He also shot 36.4 percent beyond the arc (2nd).

Hummel scored at least 11 points in all but three games on the season (24–3), including ten straight, while recording eight double-doubles and being named a First Team All-Big Ten selection for the second time in his career at Purdue, while also being named a Fox Sports Third-Team All-American, a State Farm and NABC Second Team All-American, and an Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American.

Robert John Hummel (born March 8, 1989) is an American former professional basketball player and current TV commentator.

He played college basketball for Purdue University and for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA.

Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Hummel was listed as the No. 21 small forward and the No. 75 player in the nation in 2007.

Hummel attended Purdue University to play under head coach Matt Painter.

He averaged 11.4 points (second on team), 6.1 rebounds (first) and 2.5 assists a game in his freshman year.

Hummel led the "Baby Boilers", along with Chris Kramer, JaJuan Johnson, Keaton Grant, and E'Twaun Moore, to a second-place finish in conference play and on to a second-round NCAA tournament appearance, where they lost to a senior-led Xavier team.

He broke the school freshman record with a 44.7 three-point field goal percentage, while leading the Big Ten Conference.

He also recorded the highest free throw percentage for a freshman in school history with 86.5 percent accuracy, which led the team, and broke Kyle Macy's 33-year-old .859 mark.

He was named First Team All-Big Ten, becoming the first true Boilermaker freshman to earn the honor.

He finished his freshman season as one of 24 John R. Wooden Award finalists and of 10 finalists for the Oscar Robertson Trophy.

He helped lead the Boilermakers to a 25–9 overall season record.

As one of three tri-captains on the team and named the Preseason Big Ten Player of the Year, he scored his 500th career point on December 13, 2008 against Indiana State.

Hummel opened the season with ten straight double-figure-scoring performances, totaling 19 on the season (15–4), which included four 20-plus-point performances (3–1).

He won back-to-back Big Ten Player of the Week honors in the month of December, pulling down a career-high 14 rebounds and scoring 25 points during that time frame.

He recorded two preseason double-doubles, with one coming against Stephen Curry's Davidson team.

Hummel began battling with back spasms and a broken vertebra, which forced him to sit out five games and kept him from practice involvement.

He had to wear a back brace in games following with limited minutes, while helping lead the Boilermakers to an 11–7 conference record, going 1–3 without him.

Hummel led the Boilermakers to their first Big Ten tournament championship in school history and was named the most outstanding player of the tournament, following with a third straight NCAA tournament appearance and the program's first Sweet Sixteen appearance in 9 years.

Finishing the season wearing a back brace, he scored a team high 17 points in the final game of the season against UConn in the regional semifinals.

Although having dealt with performance affecting injuries and missing four conference games, he was named a Third Team-All Big Ten selection.

To start the 2009–10 season, Hummel was picked as one of fifty players as a preseason John R. Wooden Award candidate, along with teammate, E'Twaun Moore.

He was a Preseason First Team All-Big Ten pick by both CBS Sports and Big Ten Network and a Preseason 2nd Team All-American pick by ESPN analysts, Doug Gottlieb and Jay Williams.

Near mid-season, he was selected as one of thirty finalists for the Naismith Award.

With MVP E'Twaun Moore, Hummel was named to the 2009 Paradise Jam All-Tournament Team after a victory over #10 Tennessee.

During a school record-tying 14–0 season start on December 29, 2009 against Iowa, Hummel broke a school record, making 36 consecutive free throws, previously held by Jerry Sichting's 34, which was set three decades earlier.

He tied his former assistant coach, Cuonzo Martin's single-game school record of 8 three-point field goals made in a losing effort against an Evan Turner-led Ohio State team on January 12, 2010, in which he also scored a career high 35 points and received a dislocated pinky finger.

In his team's tenth straight win in conference play at Minnesota on February 24, Hummel injured his right knee in the first half after he slipped while attempting to plant his foot.

He scored 11 points, making 3-of-4 three-pointers, in his prior twelve minutes of the game.

Purdue officials reported the following day that Hummel tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and would miss the rest of the season.

He finished the last five games as a junior perfect from the free throw line, making all 21 of his attempts.

Hummel completed his sophomore season averaging close to 13 points (3rd on team) and 7 rebounds (1st) a game.

In 2019, Hummel was named USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year.

Since his retirement from professional basketball, Hummel has been an analyst for the Big Ten Network and ESPN.

Hummel is a regular contributor for Westwood One Sports and Sirius XM.

Hummel attended Valparaiso High School in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Playing under coach Bob Punter, he played alongside his future college freshman teammate, Scott Martin (who transferred to the University of Notre Dame after one season at Purdue).

Hummel averaged 15.7 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game as a Viking during his senior season.