WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue basketball has added more potency to future lineups.
Jacob Webber, a 6-foot-6 wing, committed to the Boilermakers on Tuesday.
Webber will play for La Lumiere this season after spending the past two years at Kearney (Nebraska), where he scored 931 points over 47 games, averaging 21.7 points per game last season.
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He joins point guard Luke Ertel (Mount Vernon) to give Purdue two top 150 recruits in its 2026 class, per Rivals industry rankings.
Webber had eight power conference offers, including Nebraska, Creighton, Tennessee, Iowa, Washington, Cincinnati and Cal.
How does Jacob Webber impact Purdue basketball?
Purdue’s current roster has five seniors, two of them whose strongest asset is outside shooting in Fletcher Loyer and Liam Murphy.
Webber made 171 3-pointers over the past two seasons at Kearney, shooting 42% from beyond the arc.
Webber averaged 3.1 rebounds, 0.8 assists, 0.7 steals and 0.5 blocks per game last season. In a February victory over Benson High, Webber scored a career-high 32 points, sinking 10 of 20 3s.
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Future Purdue basketball roster for 2026-27 season
The Boilermakers will lose Braden Smith, Trey Kaufman-Renn, Oscar Cluff, Loyer and Murphy that we know.
If everything else remains as is, Webber and Ertel will join a roster that will include Omer Mayer, Antione West Jr. and Jack Benter as sophomores and a junior crew of Daniel Jacobsen, C.J. Cox, Gicarri Harris and Raleigh Burgess as expected contributors. Walk-ons Jack Lusk and Jace Rayl as of now would be the only seniors and guard Aaron Fine would be a redshirt sophomore.
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