2007–08: First Team All-Big Ten, All-Freshman Big Ten, Big Ten Player of the Week, U.S. Basketball Writers Association All-District V 2008–09: Preseason-Big Ten Player of the Year, Big Ten Player of the Week (2), Third Team All-Big Ten, Big Ten Tournament Most Valuable Player, U.S. Basketball Writers Association All-District V, Academic All-Big Ten 2009–10: Preseason Third Team All-American, First Team All-Big Ten, Paradise Jam-All Tournament Team, Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American, Fox Sports Third Team All-American, State Farm Second Team All-American Robert John Hummel (born March 8, 1989) is an American college basketball player for Purdue University , located in West Lafayette, Indiana . The son of Linda and Glenn Hummel and brother to Dann Hummel,[1] he was born in Valparaiso, Indiana .
High school career
Valparaiso (IN)
2003–2007
Robbie Hummel attended Valparaiso High School in Valparaiso, Indiana . Playing under coach Bob Punter, he played alongside his future college freshman teammate, Scott Martin (who transferred to 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. He was selected as a member of the Indiana State All-Star Team and also named First Team All-State with current NBA player, Eric Gordon .
College career
Purdue
2007–2008
Hummel attended Purdue University to play under head coach, Matt Painter , and associate head coach, Cuonzo Martin . 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 , JaJuan Johnson , Keaton Grant, Scott Martin and E'Twaun Moore to a second place finish in conference play and onto a second-round NCAA Tournament 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 . 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 freshman to earn the honor. He wrapped up his Freshmen season as 1 of 24 John R. Wooden Award finalists and of 10 finalists for the Oscar Robertson Trophy . 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 . 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 's Davidson 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 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 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 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 candidate, along with teammate, E'Twaun Moore. He was a Preseason First Team All-Big Ten pick by both CBS Sports and Big Ten Network and a Preseason 2nd Team All-American pick by ESPN analysts, Doug Gottlieb and Jay Williams . Near mid-season, he was selected as one of thirty finalists for the Naismith Award . With MVP E'Twaun Moore , Robbie was named to the 2009 Paradise Jam All-Tournament Team after a victory over #10 Tennessee . During a school record-tying 14–0 season start on December 29, 2009 against Iowa , Robbie broke a school record, making 36 consecutive free throws, previously held by Jerry Sichting 's 34, which was set three decades earlier. He tied his former assistant coach, Cuonzo Martin 's single game school record of 8 three point-field goals made in a losing effort against an Evan Turner -led Ohio State 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 (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 Third-Team All-American, a State Farm Second Team All-American and an Associated Press 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-effecting injuries, Robbie will return for his senior season. Fellow teammates JaJuan Johnson and E'Twaun Moore are returning as well, where they pulled out of the 2010 NBA Draft to return for their senior season. At team practice on October 16th, Robbie tore the same ACL and will miss the 2010-2011 season.
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 1,000 career points against Wisconsin on January 9, 2010. After his early-ending junior season, he currently ranks 28th on Purdue's career scoring list with 1,199 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. It is unknown whether or not he is the only Purdue player to be carried off the court at Mackey Arena.
World University Games
Team USA
2009
With his lower back injury healing daily, Robbie was selected for the USA Men's 2009 World University Games in Belgrade , Serbia under Wisconsin head coach, Bo Ryan . Along with the likes of fellow Big Ten players Evan Turner and Talor Battle , Hummel helped lead Team USA to the Bronze medal against Israel , 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.
See also
- 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
References
- ^ Robbie Hummel at
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