More ($): Purdue Class of 2019 targets

Purdue's recruited Keion Brooks for years now, long before the day it became the first school to offer him after his freshman season at Fort Wayne North Side.

Since, it's hung in there on a player with offers from virtually everyone, most recently the North Carolina offer that came this week.

"They're right up there with the best of them," Brooks said of Purdue. "They were the first to offer and Coach (Matt) Painter keeps trying to get me to go there. Guys from my area in Fort Wayne have gone there and succeeded, so why would I have to go somewhere else if I could just go to Lafayette and (do) that?"

Painter conducted an in-home visit in April, at which time one of his messages was that: That Fort Wayne players have a history at Purdue, notably former All-American Caleb Swanigan and former captain Rapheal Davis, who Brooks says, "is like a big brother to me."