Purdue Basketball: Queens Royals Season and Roster Review
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2025-2026 Season
Overall Record: 21-13
Atlantic Sun Conference Record: 13-5
KenPom Ranking: 181
Previous 3 Games
3/8: W – 98-93 (OT) vs Central Arkansas @ A-Sun Championship Game
3/7: W – 90 – 83 vs Austin Peay @ A-Sun Semifinal
3/6: W – 71 – 63 vs West Georgia @ A-Sun Quarterfinal
Recordvs KenPom Top 100: 0-5
11/8/25: L – 94 – 74 vs Villanova (33)
11/28/25: L – 94 – 69 vs Virginia (13)
12/14/25: L – 111-73 vs Wake Forest (74)
12/16/25: L – 108 – 80 vs Arkansas (15)
12/29/25: L – 106 – 65 vs Auburn (38)
Highest Ranked KenPom Win
3/8/: W – 98 – 93 vs Central Arkansas (153)
Lowest Ranked KenPom Loss
1/24: L – 74 – 66 vs West Georgia
Queens Personnel
StartersPosition # Player Class Height Weight Min Pts Reb Ast Point Guard 24 Yoav Berman So. 6’6″ 214 29 13 4 4 Shooting Guard 11 Chris Ashby Sr. 6’2″ 193 31 12 2 2 Small Forward 1 Nasir Mann Sr. 6’5″ 203 30 13 6 3 Power Forward 22 Carson Schwieger So. 6’9″ 222 25 10 3 1 Center 6 Avantae Parker Jr. 6’9″ 218 22 11 5 1
BenchPosition # Player Class Height Weight Min Pts Reb Ast Point Guard 0 Jordan Watford Fr. 6’5″ 185 21 12 3 4 Forward 9 Maban Jabriel So. 6’9″ 205 20 8 4 1 Center 7 Gus Larson Sr. 6’10” 220 12 3 2 1
First Impressions
- This team is bigger than most AQ mid-major teams, especially in the backcourt.
- They can score, putting up over 90 points 12 times this season and cracking 100 3 times.
- They are 19th (84.9) in points scored per game in the NCAA.
- They struggle to stop teams from scoring, giving up over 90 points vs every KenPom top 10o team.
- They are 353/365 (82.9) in points allowed
- As a #3 seed in the A-Sun Tournament, they knocked off the #2 and #1 seed to get the NCAA bid.
Overall
This is a weird-looking mid-major. If you stripped the names off the roster and just listed height and weight, this looks like a team from a power conference. When they’ve stepped up against power conference teams, they’ve been blown out, but this isn’t a team that Purdue is going to be able to bully physically, at least not without some effort.
The scoring is also wild. They’re 18th in the nation in 3-pointers attempted (962) and 20th in makes (346). Chris Ashby averages 8.6 attempts per/game, and Carson Schweiger averages 6.6. To put that in perspective, Fletcher Loyer leads Purdue with 6.7 attempts per/game. These guys want to play fast and get as many perimeter shots up as possible. I’m not sure there is such a thing as a bad 3-point attempt in this team’s eyes.
I’m going to need to look further into this, because despite launching 3’s early, often, and consistently, they are 54th in the nation in free throw attempts (766) and 49th in free throws made (566). It looks like the guards that don’t shoot much (Berman and Watford) draw most of their fouls. This looks like a drive-and-kick team to me. You don’t see many jump shot-reliant teams like Queens get to the line like this (see Purdue, Boilermakers).
Look, Queens is a 15-seed for a reason. They haven’t been competitive against the high-major teams on their schedule. I would think that, as much as they score, they could have come close at least once, but their scoring hasn’t held up, and their defense has been abysmal.
They’ll ask some interesting questions of the Boilermakers. More so than some #15 seeds, but at the end of the day, Purdue is a prohibitive favorite for a reason. Queens is going to attempt to outscore the most efficient scoring team in college basketball. I don’t like their chances of playing this close, but I think it’s going to be fun to watch them try.
