INDIANAPOLIS -- Purdue star guard Braden Smith's parents both played college basketball at Arkansas Tech, meeting for the first time in the training room. Ginny and Dustin Smith spent countless hours in the gym shooting baskets there, with Ginny describing the sport as their "love language."
Ginny Smith began coaching after college in Arkansas and coached high school basketball in Indiana for more than 15 years. Dustin Smith has run the local AAU program Grand Park Premier for the past seven years. Ginny jokes that their home in nearby Westfield, Indiana, "smells like gym," an aroma tied to the place the family spends the most time.