WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue women’s basketball team rolled to an 83-73 win over Eastern Michigan at Mackey Arena to improve to 2-0 on the year. The Boilermakers drained 12 3-pointers on the night, tying for the ninth-most in school history.
The Boilermakers scored 80 points in back-to-back games to start the season for the first time since 2002-03.
For the second straight night, four players finished in double figures. Hannah Wickstrom led the way with her second consecutive game with 21 points. The Australian knocked down a trio of 3-pointers and finished with a career-high nine rebounds, two minutes shy of a complete game.
Jelena Bulajić sparked the Boilermakers with three straight triples to start the night to go 4-of-6 from behind the arc. Bulajić finished in double figures for the second consecutive game, tallying 19 points for a new career high.
Sophomore Avery Gordon finished one rebound shy of her first career double-double with 10 points and a career-high nine boards. The center was 4-of-5 from the field, while adding two assists and matching her career high with three blocks.
Kyndall Hunter tacked on 18 points with four rebounds, four assists, one steal and one block. Taylor Henderson stuffed the stat sheet in her first career start as a Boilermaker and her first in 602 days since the end of the 2024-25 season at UNC Wilmington. The Charlotte, N.C., native scored eight points with six rebounds and four assists in 27 minutes of action.
For the game, Purdue was 44.6% from the field and 12-of-24 from deep. The Boilermakers got to the line and shot 21-of-26, their second outing with more than 20 makes at the charity stripe.
Purdue won the rebounding battle 40-32 and pulled down 11 offensive rebounds with Henderson and Gordon combining for nine.