UCLA 69, [4] Purdue 67 (Postgame Notes)
- 4-ranked Purdue fell to 17-2 overall and 7-1 in the Big Ten Conference with a 69-67 setback to UCLA in front of a season-high crowd of 10,235 at Pauley Pavilion.
- The loss snaps Purdue’s season-long nine-game winning streak and ends its best Big Ten start since the 2017-18 season, after winning its first seven league games.
- Purdue is now 5-11 all-time against UCLA and has never won in Pauley Pavilion, now 0-4 in the facility all-time.
- Purdue led 67-61 with under two minutes to play, but had two turnovers and missed a last-second 3-pointer in its final three possessions.
- Purdue averaged just 68.0 points and shot 50-of-115 (.435) from the field in its two West Coast games. The Boilermakers had 34 assists against just 16 turnovers. Purdue was 14-of-48 (.292) from 3-point range.
- Purdue saw a 32-game winning streak end when having fewer turnovers and outrebounding its opponent. The last time Purdue lost when winning both the turnover and rebound margin came on Dec. 9, 2021, vs. Rutgers.
- Purdue saw a 17-game winning streak against unranked teams end in the loss. Purdue’s last loss to an unranked team came in last year’s regular-season finale against Illinois.
- Purdue suffered its first loss on the road this season, now with a 4-1 record.
- J. Cox scored 16 points with a season-high five rebounds and a career-high four assists. Cox hasn’t committed a turnover in the last 12 games played, spanning 288 minutes.
- Braden Smith tallied 12 points, four assists, three rebounds and two steals.
- Trey Kaufman-Renn tallied 10 points with seven rebounds and five assists with no turnovers.
- Purdue’s bench outscored UCLA 18-0, going 7-of-15 from the field.
LOS ANGELES — Tyler Bilodeau hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with eight seconds remaining, and UCLA rallied to edge No. 4 Purdue 69-67 on Tuesday night, snapping the Boilermakers' nine-game winning streak in their first visit to Pauley Pavilion in 26 years.
C.J. Cox missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer and Xavier Booker grabbed the defensive rebound as time expired. Fans stormed the court and jumped up and down in celebration on a night when the Bruins honored John Wooden, the Indiana native and Purdue alumnus who coached them to a record 10 national championships.
It marked the 12th time in Purdue's last 16 road losses that the Boilermakers have been court-stormed.
Donovan Dent, who assisted on the winning basket, had 23 points and 13 assists to lead the Bruins (13-6, 5-3 Big Ten). Bilodeau finished with 14, and Eric Dailey Jr. added 12 points and seven rebounds.
Cox led the Boilermakers (17-2, 7-1) with 16 points and Braden Smith scored 12. Their first loss in league play kept them from taking sole possession of first place over idle Nebraska.
Tied at halftime, neither team led by more than six points in the second half.
Smith hit a 3-pointer and Trey Kaufman-Renn scored to keep Purdue ahead 67-61.
But the Bruins scored the game's final seven points. Dent made a 3-pointer and Dailey scored on a layup off Trent Perry's steal before Bilodeau's game-winner.
Purdue held a 12-point lead in the first half, when the Bruins closed with a 17-5 run — including 11 in a row — to tie it 32-all at the break. Dent had eight points in the spurt while UCLA's defense forced turnovers and kept the Boilermakers scoreless for over 3 1/2 minutes.
It was Purdue's first loss since Dec. 6 against Iowa State.