WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue women’s basketball team rolled to a 79-68 win over Miami (OH) on Sunday afternoon at Mackey Arena. The Boilermakers (3-2) shot a season-high 52.8% clip and knocked down 11 3-pointers at a 52.4% rate on the afternoon.
Madison Layden-Zay turned in a vintage performance matching her career high with 21 points on 6-of-8 shooting behind the arc and 3-of-4 at the line. The fifth year added five rebounds, four assists one block and a pair of steals in her 38 minutes of action.
Taylor Feldman tallied 16 points off the bench with a trio of 3-pointers. She dished out a game-high seven assists to go with four rebounds and two steals.
Lana McCarthy posted her first game in double figures since the season opener, finishing with 12 points on an efficient 6-of-8 shooting with five rebounds, three assists and a steal.
Purdue dished out 19 assts on 28 made field goals and won the rebounding battle 35-21, led by seven from Saige Stahl. Forty-one of the Boilermakers’ points came from the bench.
TOP STATS
Layden-Zay notched a pair of career milestones on Sunday. The Kokomo, Ind., native moved past former teammate Cassidy Hardin for fourth on Purdue’s career 3-point list with 216 triples. Layden-Zay is now 28 triples shy of Karissa McLaughlin’s all-time record of 244.
Layden-Zay also became the 20th player in Purdue history to cross the 300-assist plateau for her career.
KEY MOMENTS
• After trailing by as many as five in the first quarter, the Boilermakers rolled off an 11-3 run to close the opening frame. Feldman gave Purdue a boost off the bench with six points in the frame. Tara Daye tallied Purdue’s opening five points.
• McCarthy scored on two straight trips down the floor to open the second, before back-to-back triples from Feldman and Nya Smith opened the lead to 10 points.
• The Boilermakers carried a 40-30 lead at the break following a Layden-Zay 3-pointer and a pair of free throws from Daye with less than a minute to play.
• Layden-Zay scored Purdue’s opening seven points in the second half, but Miami managed to chip the gap down to three midway through the frame. Kiki Smith converted an and-one with a minute to play in the third to help swing momentum back going to the fourth.
• McCarthy went on a personal six-point run for the Boilermakers over the opening four minutes of the fourth to counter a pair of Miami 3-pointers.
• Layden-Zay and Feldman teamed up for a 9-4 run late in the fourth to get the advantage back to double digits, helping Purdue close the afternoon on a 11-5 run swing.
NOTES
• Purdue leads the all-time series with Miami 9-2 with five straight victories.
• The Boilermakers improved to 3-0 at Mackey Arena this season.
• Head coach Katie Gearlds moved within eight victories of 300 for her career.
• The 41 bench points were the most by a Purdue squad since knocking off Wisconsin last season at Mackey Arena.
• Feldman is now 83 points away from joining the 1,000-point club for her career.
• Nya Smith turned in a solid outing with nine points and a pair of rebounds in six minutes of action.
UP NEXT
The Boilermakers close their two-game homestand against Howard on Wednesday afternoon with a noon tip at Mackey Arena.