{"id":750704,"date":"2026-02-14T03:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750704\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:39:14","slug":"princeton-basketball-transfer-is-purdue-bound-brother-plays-for-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/750704\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton basketball transfer is Purdue bound; brother plays for Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Princeton basketball star Caden Pierce, the 2023-24 Ivy League Player of the Year, is transferring to Purdue for the 2026-27 season<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was on campus, with the coaches and with the guys, it felt like a great place for me. I wanted to be a part of that program,&#8221; Pierce told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-7 forward is redshirting the 2025\u201326 season while finishing his degree at Princeton. As a sophomore in the 2023-24 season, he averaged 16.6 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per game and won Ivy League honors. Last season, he averaged 11.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 3.2 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Glen Ellyn, Illinois, native is the younger brother of Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Alec Pierce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Princeton basketball star Caden Pierce, the 2023-24 Ivy League Player of the Year, is transferring to Purdue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[4994,107639,2005,7,2004,392,2381,41663,6,992],"class_list":{"0":"post-750704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-alec-pierce","9":"tag-caden-pierce","10":"tag-colts","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-indianapolis","13":"tag-indianapolis-colts","14":"tag-indianapoliscolts","15":"tag-ivy-league","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-princeton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116066907859043574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}