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#12 Purdue's Comeback Falls Short at Indiana

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Indiana 72, [12] Purdue 67 (Postgame Notes)

  • The Purdue men’s basketball dropped its third straight game, falling to Indiana 72-67 in Bloomington on Tuesday night. The Boilermakers fall to 17-4 overall and 7-3 in the Big Ten Conference.
  • Purdue led 23-19 with 7:04 to play in the first half, but the Hoosiers used a 13-0 run to take a 32-23 lead and would push the lead to 40-29 at halftime.
  • Purdue’s 29 first-half points were the second-fewest in a half this season (27 vs. Iowa State; 2nd half).
  • Purdue cut the lead to 47-41 with just over 15 minutes to play, but Indiana countered with 12-4 spurt to take its largest lead of the game at 59-45 with 9:54 to play.
  • Purdue crawled back within two at 65-63 on a Braden Smith lay-up with 1:30 to play, but could get no closer in falling in Bloomington for the second straight season.
  • Purdue has lost in Bloomington in four of its last five meetings, being ranked in the nation’s top 13 in each of the four losses.
  • During Purdue’s three-game losing streak, opponents have made 39-of-91 (.429) from long distance, averaging 13.0 made 3-pointers in that span.
  • Purdue has allowed six straight opponents to shoot at least 45.9 percent from the field, and five of Purdue’s last six opponents have averaged at least 1.16 points / possession.
  • Purdue has allowed a run of 10-0 or larger in five straight games. In the season’s first 16 games, Purdue allowed just five runs of 10-0 or larger.
  • One game after outscoring Illinois in the paint, 44-14, Purdue only outscored Indiana, 24-18, in the paint.
  • Trey Kaufman-Renn recorded his first 20-point game of the season (22nd of career) with a 23-point, 3-rebound, 3-assist performance. He went 9-of-14 from the field. Kaufman-Renn moved into 30th place on the school’s career scoring list (1,379).
  • Braden Smith tallied 14 points with 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals. He became the first player in Big Ten history to have at least 500 assists in Big Ten Conference games only.
  • Smith also moved into 11th place on the NCAA career assists list with 948, passing Doug Gottlieb (947) in tonight’s game.