Elliot Bloom, Purdue's Director of Men’s Basketball Administration and Operations, Joins Query & Company!
Query & Company
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Elliot Bloom, Purdue's Director of Men’s Basketball Administration and Operations, joins Jake Query to detail how team’s go about travel planning and coordinating with the NCAA during the tournament, gives his perspective on what has led to the Boilermakers looking like a freight train now, compliments on the type of person that Trey Kaufman-Renn is because he’s different than most college student-athletes, and the excitement that he has for Luke Ertel joining the program next season.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the best time of year. |
| 0:01.6 | Sports every day of the week. |
| 0:03.4 | But if you're sitting at home watching a game, catching a draft, not the one you're thinking, |
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| 0:30.1 | Joining us now on the Java House Cold Brew Coffee guest line, he is in, I believe, his 18th year |
| 0:36.1 | as the director of basketball operations at Purdue and a |
| 0:38.9 | return guest to the program, Elliot Bloom, joining us from San Jose. Elliot, I'm guessing 78 degrees |
| 0:45.0 | in sunny in California. Is that right? Pretty close. It's a little cooler earlier in the day here, |
| 0:51.5 | but yeah, yesterday it was sunshine and low 80s, high 70s. |
| 0:55.2 | So, yep, pretty good living out here in California. |
| 0:58.6 | How, and be honest here, you know, just in terms of your team, all of the logistics that go into the travel with this and all of it, How are you feeling about everything right now? |
| 1:12.6 | I feel pretty good. I mean, most of the haze in the barn now, you know, now that we're on |
| 1:16.4 | site and in the hotel and everything, there's a lot of planning that goes into it ahead of time. |
| 1:23.0 | And, you know, most of the work is done while we're kind of in game mode in St. Louis, you know, |
| 1:28.9 | I'm kind of working ahead on what it's going to look like for the next week if we're |
| 1:32.4 | fortunate enough to get through two games there and you kind of start planning ahead. |
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