Robbie Hummel
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Robert John Hummel is an American
United States
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 college basketball
College basketball
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 player for Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

, located in West Lafayette, Indiana
West Lafayette, Indiana
As of the census of 2010, there were 29,596 people, 12,591 households, and 3,588 families residing in the city. The population density was 5,381.1 people per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 74.3% White, 17.3% Asian, 2.7% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.03% Pacific...

. The son of Linda and Glenn Hummel and brother to Dan Hummel, The All-American forward retore his ACL
Anterior cruciate ligament
The anterior cruciate ligament is a cruciate ligament which is one of the four major ligaments of the human knee. In the quadruped stifle , based on its anatomical position, it is referred to as the cranial cruciate ligament.The ACL originates from deep within the notch of the distal femur...

 in his right knee before the start of the 2010–2011 season, forcing him to return as a redshirt senior for the 2011–2012 season.

2003–2007

Robbie Hummel attended Valparaiso High School
Valparaiso High School
Valparaiso High School is a public high school in Valparaiso, Indiana. This high school is currently a four star and accredited high school, cited by US News and World Report as a "Best High School 2008". The current principal is Mr...

 in Valparaiso, Indiana
Valparaiso, Indiana
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. Playing under coach Bob Punter, he played alongside his future college freshman teammate, Scott Martin (who transferred to 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 his Senior season.

2007–2008

Hummel attended Purdue University to play under head coach, Matt Painter
Matt Painter
Matt Painter is the current head coach of the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team.-Playing career:Matt Painter attended Delta High School in Muncie and played basketball for current basketball coach and former athletic director, Stan Daugherty...

, and associate head coach, Cuonzo Martin
Cuonzo Martin
Cuonzo LaMar Martin is a retired American professional basketball player and is the current head coach of the University of Tennessee men's basketball team.-1986-1990:...

. He averaged 11.4 points (2nd on team), 6.1 rebounds (1st) and 2.5 assists a game in his freshman year. Hummel led the baby boilers, along with Chris Kramer
Chris Kramer
Christopher Scott Kramer is an American professional basketball player. He played collegiately with the Purdue University Boilermakers...

, JaJuan Johnson
JaJuan Johnson
JaJuan Markeis Johnson is an American professional basketball player with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played collegiate basketball at Purdue University. During his sophomore season, he was named a First-Team All-Big Ten selection. As a junior, he was named a...

, Keaton Grant, and E'Twaun Moore
E'Twaun Moore
E'Twaun Donte Moore is an American professional basketball player with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association, who is playing with Italy's Benetton Treviso during the lockout. Moore was drafted by the Celtics in the 2011 NBA Draft after playing college basketball at Purdue...

 to a second place finish in conference play and onto a second-round NCAA Tournament
2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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 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
Big Ten Conference
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. He also recorded the highest free throw percentage for a freshman in school history with 86.5 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
Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball
The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and is a member of the Big Ten Conference. Purdue basketball holds the record for most Big Ten Championships with 22, along with being the only program in the conference to boast winning records...

 freshman to earn the honor. He wrapped up his Freshmen season as 1 of 24 John R. Wooden Award
John R. Wooden Award
The John R. Wooden Award is an award given annually to the most outstanding men's and women's college basketball players. The program consists of the men's and women's Player of the Year awards, the Legends of Coaching award and recognizes the All–America Teams.The awards, given by the Los...

finalists and of 10 finalists for the Oscar Robertson Trophy
Oscar Robertson Trophy
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. He helped lead the Boilers to a 25–9 overall season record.

2008–2009

Robbie Hummel completed his sophomore season averaging close to 13 points (3rd on team) and 7 rebounds (1st) a game. 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, '08 against Indiana State
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball
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. Robbie opened the season with ten straight double figure scoring performances, totaling 19 on the season (15–4), which included four 20+ 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 25 points during that time frame. He recorded two preseason double-doubles, with one coming against Stephen Curry
Steve Curry
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's Davidson
Davidson College
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 team. Hummel began battling with back spasms and a broken vertebra, which forced him to sit out 5 games and kept him from practice involvement. He had to wear a back brace
Back brace
A back brace is a device designed to limit the motion of the spine in cases of fracture or in post-operative fusions. Limiting the motion of the spine enhances the healing process and minimizes the patient's discomfort.Common back braces include:...

 in games following with limited minutes, while helping lead the Boilers to an 11–7 conference record, going 1–3 without him. Robbie led the Boilers to their first Big Ten Tournament
2009 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
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 championship in school history and was named the most valuable 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
Connecticut Huskies men's basketball
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 in the Regional Semifinals. Although having dealt with performance-effecting injuries and missing four conference games, he was named a Third Team-All Big Ten selection.

2009–2010

To start the 2009–10 season, Robbie Hummel was picked as one of fifty players as a preseason John R. Wooden Award
John R. Wooden Award
The John R. Wooden Award is an award given annually to the most outstanding men's and women's college basketball players. The program consists of the men's and women's Player of the Year awards, the Legends of Coaching award and recognizes the All–America Teams.The awards, given by the Los...

 candidate, along with teammate, E'Twaun Moore. He was a Preseason First Team All-Big Ten pick by both CBS Sports
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 and Big Ten Network and a Preseason 2nd Team All-American pick by ESPN
ESPN
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 analysts, Doug Gottlieb
Doug Gottlieb
Douglas Michael Gottlieb is a former NCAA collegiate basketball player for the University of Notre Dame and Oklahoma State University, and the Russian Basketball Super League...

 and Jay Williams
Jay Williams (basketball)
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. Near mid-season, he was selected as one of thirty finalists for the Naismith Award
Naismith Award
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. With MVP E'Twaun Moore
E'Twaun Moore
E'Twaun Donte Moore is an American professional basketball player with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association, who is playing with Italy's Benetton Treviso during the lockout. Moore was drafted by the Celtics in the 2011 NBA Draft after playing college basketball at Purdue...

, Robbie was named to the 2009 Paradise Jam
Paradise Jam Tournament
The U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam is a preseason college basketball tournament that takes place in late November of each year, with the men usually playing the week before Thanksgiving and the women playing Thanksgiving week. It takes place in St. Thomas at the Sports and Fitness Center. The...

 All-Tournament Team after a victory over #10 Tennessee. During a school record-tying 14–0 season start on December 29, 2009 against Iowa
Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball
The Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represents the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, as a member of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. They currently play in 15,500-seat Carver-Hawkeye Arena, along with the school's women's basketball, wrestling, and...

, Robbie broke a school record, making 36 consecutive free throws, previously held by Jerry Sichting
Jerry Sichting
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's 34, which was set three decades earlier. He tied his former assistant coach, Cuonzo Martin
Cuonzo Martin
Cuonzo LaMar Martin is a retired American professional basketball player and is the current head coach of the University of Tennessee men's basketball team.-1986-1990:...

's single game school record of 8 three point-field goals made in a losing effort against an Evan Turner
Evan Turner
Evan Marcel Turner , nicknamed The Villain, is an American basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers. Turner was drafted 2nd overall by the 76ers in the 2010 NBA draft. Turner plays the point guard, shooting guard and small forward positions. Turner is a first-team 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball...

-led Ohio State
Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball
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 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, Robbie 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
Anterior cruciate ligament
The anterior cruciate ligament is a cruciate ligament which is one of the four major ligaments of the human knee. In the quadruped stifle , based on its anatomical position, it is referred to as the cranial cruciate ligament.The ACL originates from deep within the notch of the distal femur...

 (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.
Playing in 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
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 Third-Team All-American
, a State Farm
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and NABC
National Association of Basketball Coaches
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 Second Team All-American
, and an Associated Press
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 Honorable Mention All-American
. He averaged 16.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in Big Ten Conference play for the #3 ranked team in the nation (12–3) and eventual conference titlists. Hummel received knee surgery and had to wait an estimated 4 to 6 months for the healing process.

2010–2011

After two consecutive seasons with performance-affecting injuries, Robbie was expected to return for his senior season. Fellow teammates JaJuan Johnson and E'Twaun Moore were returning as well, where they pulled out of the 2010 NBA Draft
2010 NBA Draft
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 to return for their senior season. At team practice on October 16, Robbie tore the same ACL and was forced to sit out and serve as an assistant for the 2010–2011 season. Before the injury, Hummel was predicted as high as a Preseason Second Team All-American by much of the media. He will return for the 2011–2012 season as a redshirted senior.

2011-2012

On October 19, 2011, Robbie Hummel showed no effects from his injury during 3-on-3 fast break drills in practice. He was named one of 50 candidates for the John R. Wooden Award
John R. Wooden Award
The John R. Wooden Award is an award given annually to the most outstanding men's and women's college basketball players. The program consists of the men's and women's Player of the Year awards, the Legends of Coaching award and recognizes the All–America Teams.The awards, given by the Los...

, as well as the #24 player on CBSSports.com
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 Top 100 List and and a Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
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candidate to open the season. On November 11, the Preseason All-Big Ten selection scored 21 points, making 5 of 7 beyond the arc to open the season against Northern Illinois
Northern Illinois Huskies
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 in 20 minutes of play. In eight games (7-1), he leads Purdue with 19 points, 5 rebounds, and 2 blocks per contest. He averages 1.5 assists while shooting 45% from beyond the arc.

Career notes

Hummel currently holds one of fifteen positions, being the only Big Ten and one of two student/athlete representatives, on the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Issues Committee, where he will serve throughout his time at Purdue. Robbie Hummel became the 44th player in school history to score over 1,000 career points, surpassing the mark with a 13-point performance during a 73–66 loss at Wisconsin
Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball
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 on January 9, 2010. After his early-ending junior season, he currently ranks 22nd on Purdue's career scoring list with 1,351 points and became the 19th player in school history to tally 1,000+ points and 500+ rebounds. His 90.2 free throw percentage on the 2009–2010 season ranks the second most in school history, just .5 percent less than Henry Ebershoff's 44 year 90.7 mark. He was carried off the court his freshman year after leading the Boilermakers to an emotional win over No. 8 Wisconsin.

World University Games

2009

With his lower back injury healing daily, Robbie was selected for the USA Men's 2009
2009 Summer Universiade
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 World University Games in Belgrade
Belgrade
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, Serbia under Wisconsin
Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball
The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. Home games are played at the Kohl Center, located on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in Madison, Wisconsin....

 head coach Bo Ryan
Bo Ryan
William "Bo" Francis Ryan, Jr. is an American college basketball coach and current head coach of the University of Wisconsin–Madison men's basketball team.-Playing career:...

. Along with the likes of fellow Big Ten players Evan Turner
Evan Turner
Evan Marcel Turner , nicknamed The Villain, is an American basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers. Turner was drafted 2nd overall by the 76ers in the 2010 NBA draft. Turner plays the point guard, shooting guard and small forward positions. Turner is a first-team 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball...

 and Talor Battle
Talor Battle
Talor Battle is an American basketball player for Cholet Basket in France. In college he played for Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball team...

, Hummel helped lead Team USA to the Bronze medal against Israel
Israel
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, finishing with a 6–1 record. Pulling down a team single-game-high ten rebounds, he averaged 7.28 points and 3.4 rebounds a game.

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