22 years old
6’4” - 6’6” wingspan - 200 lbs.
Going into Dakota Mathias’ junior year, the 6’4” guard had never averaged more than twenty minutes a game, was something of a defensive liability and despite the moniker of being a shooter out of high school, was only shooting 35% from three in his career.
It’s fitting then that when he played his last game for Purdue in Boston at the TD Garden in the Sweet Sixteen, that he’d finish his career as the all-time leading 3-pt shooter in school history while becoming one of the best perimeter defender in the country while making back to back all-Big Ten defensive teams.