Purdue's Trey Kaufman-Renn Projected as Top-15 Scorer in 2025-26 Season
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In his first year as one of Purdue's primary scoring threats, Trey Kaufman-Renn lit up the college basketball world. The redshirt junior forward had one of the top scoring averages in the sport, and an analytical outlook for the 2025-26 season expects the Boilermaker star to do it again.
Bart Torvik, who operates a basketball analytics website, recently predicted the top-20 scorers in college basketball for the 2025-26 campaign. Kaufman-Renn is projected to average 17.9 points per game as a senior, which ranks 13th nationally.
The Field of 68 shared the graphic in a social media post, which includes each of the top-20 projected scorers for the upcoming season.
The analytic metrics site, Bart Torvik (@totally_t_bomb) predicts the 2025-26 Top 20 NCAA Scoring Leaders😳📊
— The Field of 68 (@TheFieldOf68) August 26, 2025
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Last season, Kaufman-Renn averaged 20.1 points per game, which ranked 17th nationally. He scored a total of 723 points, which ranked sixth, and made 292 field goals, the most in the country.
Kaufman-Renn burst onto the college basketball scene last year. He improved his scoring average by nearly 14 points per game, averaging 6.4 points per contest as a sophomore during the 2023-24 season.
Although a 17.9 points per game average would be a slight dip in production for Kaufman-Renn, it would still be an incredible season for the senior forward in West Lafayette.
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Dustin Schutte is the publisher of Purdue Boilermakers on SI and has spent more than a decade working in sports journalism. His career began in 2013, when he covered Big Ten football. He remained in that role for eight years before working at On SI to cover the Boilermakers. Dustin graduated from Manchester University in Indiana in 2010, where he played for the men's tennis team.
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