WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue women’s basketball team fell 74-59 on Sunday afternoon at Indiana.
The Boilermakers (11-13, 3-10) were led on the offensive end by Avery Gordon’s 17 points, her fifth game in double figures this season and the fourth time in the last seven outings.
Madison Layden-Zay jumped back into double figures with 15 points, including a trio of 3-pointers. The fifth year tacked on a pair of rebounds and matched her season high with six assists.
McKenna Layden laced her 16th 3-pointer of the year to finish and added a season-high nine rebounds to go with two assists and two steals.
Purdue finished the game shooting 33.3% from the floor, 7-of-24 (29.2%) from distance and 6-of-10 at the line. The Boilermakers flipped 17 turnovers into 21 points and scored eight second chance points off eight offensive rebounds. Purdue committed eight turnovers for their second straight outing under 10.
Indiana (14-11, 3-10) shot 49% from the field, 5-of-13 from distance and converted 19 of their 24 free throws. Shay Ciezki paced the Hoosiers with 29 points.
The Boilermakers worked out of an 11-point hole in the first quarter, evening the score on a Layden-Zay triple to start the second. Indiana took a 12-point lead into the halftime break with an 18-8 second frame that saw the hosts have a 10-0 advantage on free throws attempted.
In the second half, Purdue turned the ball inside to score 20 points in the paint with 13 coming from Gordon. Trailing by as many as 19 in the third, Layden-Zay tallied five points in a 9-2 run that cut the gap to 10 heading to the fourth. The Boilermakers fell on the wrong side of an 11-2 run to start the fourth before making their first field goal at the 6:07 mark.
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The Boilermakers will have the week off before returning to Mackey next Saturday to host Rutgers at noon on B1G+. The game will be the annual Alumnae Day, National Girls and Women in Sports Day Celebration and the 50th Anniversary of the Honda Awards.