Bud Ripberger

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

@HammerAndRails Call the bench!

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

Still wearing Purdue gear today
Proud to be a Boilermaker!
#chestout

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

@CoachPainter @zach_edey @3bradensmith @GillisMason @FletcherLoyer @BoilerBall @CamdenHeide @LanceBuckets
Maui champions
Big ten conference champions
NCAA national runner up
Thanks for your year long hard work and sacrifices
GREAT season
Congratulations!
GREAT fun

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

Yes!Yes!Yes!
Great win!

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

I've been wearing 3 layers of Purdue gear all week!

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

National treasure

Take the time and watch this

[Purdue Sports @PurdueSports]

No, it wasn’t a dream.

Not an April Fools’ joke.

We’re going to the Final Four!

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

@GameDayGabi So you did watch it live....good decision!

[Matt Glenesk @MattGlenesk]

Zach Edey cuts down piece of net (with no ladder) and hands piece of to Gene Keady who never made it to a Final Four. #Purdue

[Seth Davis @SethDavisHoops]

but he's just tall

[J @JL_Voice]

Huh, 5 out of 7. But I was told Purdue always loses early.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.

After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣

My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me.

It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣ And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

Your brother,⁣⁣ Luz"⁣⁣

[FOX College Hoops @CBBonFOX]

HISTORY MADE! 🤩

Zach Edey is the first player in NCAA history to reach these marks in one season.

@zach_edey x @BoilerBall

[Jared Berson @JaredBerson]

Purdue’s Zach Edey is the first player with 30 points and 20 rebounds in an NCAA Tournament game since Maryland’s Joe Smith in 1995.

Edey now has 3 career games with 30 points and 20 rebounds, the most by any Division I player this century.

[Purdue Men's Basketball @BoilerBall]

BoilerBall Postgame Press Conference | vs. Michigan https://t.co/YS9re0Vh9w

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

peacock is terrible. Jerky video
@bigten deserves better....oh that's right @BigTenNetwork is better

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

@PurdueBookstore @BoilerBall I will pay for it...just tell me where to get it

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Might be the greatest bunker tip of all-time.

[Purdue University @LifeAtPurdue]

#PurdueUniversity trustees on Friday (June 9) approved an ongoing tuition freeze for the 11th and 12th consecutive years, keeping base undergraduate tuition and fees for Indiana residents under $10k per year.
https://t.co/Y4nM05Md0A

[Bud Ripberger @boilerbud]

@BoilerBall Great season!