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#13 Purdue Outlasts #7 Nebraska in Overtime, 80-77#13 Purdue Outlasts #7 Nebraska in Overtime, 80-77

#13 Purdue Outlasts #7 Nebraska in Overtime, 80-77

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#13 Purdue 80, #7 Nebraska 77, OT (Postgame Notes)

  • 13 Purdue outlasted No. 7-ranked Nebraska, 80-77, in overtime to improve to 20-4 overall and 10-3 in the Big Ten Conference. The win was Purdue’s third in a row after three straight losses, with two of the wins coming on the road.
  • The Boilermakers won their 20th game of the season for the 16th time in Matt Painter’s 21 years at Purdue.
  • The Boilermakers improved to 6-2 in true road games.
  • The overtime game was Purdue’s first since the 2024 Big Ten Tournament semifinals and was Purdue’s first overtime road win since a 65-62 win at Nebraska on Dec. 10, 2022.
  • Purdue now has two road wins over top-10 teams (#8 Alabama, #7 Nebraska), tied with Illinois for the most in the country. It marks just the second time that Purdue has done that in the AP Top 25 poll era since 1948-49 (other year was 2009-10).
  • Oscar Cluff scored the go-ahead basket with 5.9 seconds left in overtime after Purdue trailed 77-75 with 1:31 to play, and had two offensive rebounds on its final game-winning possession. When Nebraska scored with 1:31 to play, its next possession started with 3.9 seconds.
  • Purdue improved to 7-4 in quad-1 games, now tied for the fourth-most quad-1 wins in America (Duke, Michigan, Arizona).
  • Since the start of the 2023-24 season, Purdue is a nation’s-best 12-5 (.706) against top-15 teams. Since 2021-22, Purdue is 17-8 (.680) against top-15 teams, also the best mark in America.
  • Purdue improved to 138-8 (.945) over the last 10 seasons when scoring 80 points in a game.
  • Purdue’s 46 attempts from 3-point range were a school record. The previous school record was 36 done four previous times.
  • Purdue’s senior class won its 107th game during their careers, tied for the fourth most by a class in school history. It has won 55 Big Ten Conference games, just four shy of the league record for a class (59 done by the Purdue classes of 2025 and 2024; Indiana classes of 1978 and 1977).
  • Purdue improved to 24-13 (.649) in Big Ten road games since the start of the 2022-23 season – the best mark in the league.
  • Purdue outrebounded Nebraska 54-37 and had 11 turnovers to Nebraska’s 14. When Purdue wins both categories under Painter, the Boilermakers are 167-16 (.913).
  • Braden Smith scored 13 points with 10 assists and eight rebounds, his 25th career double-double, 24 of which are point-assist double-doubles. He moved into seventh place on the NCAA career assists list with 968, moving past Syracuse legend Sherman Douglas (960).
  • Smith also became the school’s career leader in minutes played with 4,530 minutes, moving past E’Twaun Moore (4,517).
  • Fletcher Loyer led the Boilermakers with 18 points, three rebounds and three assists. Loyer’s 17, 3-point attempts were the second most in school history (Carsen Edwards vs. Virginia, 3-30-19; 19 attempts).
  • Purdue improved to 22-0 during Fletcher Loyer’s career when he makes four or more 3-pointers in a game.
  • Trey Kaufman-Renn scored just six points, but grabbed a career-high 19 rebounds, including 16 on the defensive end – tied for the second most in a game in school history (Trevion Williams – 17 vs. Iowa; 12-3-21).
  • Oscar Cluff recorded a double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds, his 29th career double-double and sixth of the season. His 10 offensive rebounds tied a school record set four other times, most recently by Zach Edey vs. Indiana (2-4-23).

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Oscar Cluff’s layup put Purdue ahead with 3.9 seconds left in overtime after Nebraska had taken its first lead and Gicarri Harris’ two free throws sealed the No. 13 Boilermakers’ 80-77 victory over the No. 7 Cornhuskers on Tuesday night.

The Boilermakers (20-4, 10-3 Big Ten) recorded their second top-10 win of the season to start a difficult closing stretch that has them playing three top-10 teams over 16 days.

Nebraska (21-3, 10-3) lost for the third time in four games following a 20-0 start. All three losses were to ranked opponents.

Fletcher Loyer led Purdue with 18 points, Trey Kaufman-Renn had a career-high 19 rebounds and Braden Smith had 13 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds.

Rienk Mast led the Huskers with 18 points, Jamarques Lawrence added 16 and Pryce Sandfort had all 15 of his points in the second half.

Sandfort’s layup with 1:31 left in overtime gave Nebraska its first lead, 77-75. Cluff had a chance to tie it when he got fouled pulling down an offensive rebound, but he made only one of two free throws. Cluff’s putback on the next possession put the Boilermakers up by a point in the final seconds. Lawrence fumbled Sam Hoiberg’s inbound pass, and Harris picked up the ball and got fouled. After Harris made his free throws, Cluff intercepted the Huskers’ length-of-the-court pass just ahead of the buzzer.

The Huskers, who overcame 16-point deficits in two of their wins, forced overtime on Mast’s putback with 12.8 seconds left. Mast missed what would have been a go-ahead free throw, and Smith’s fallaway jumper in the lane bounced off the rim as time ran out in regulation.