Sports Fletcher Loyer scored 21 aspects to manual five gamers in double figures as No. 14 Purdue beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 90-73 on Monday evening.
Additionally scoring in double figures were Trey Kaufman-Renn with 15 aspects, Myles Colvin with 14, Daniel Jacobsen with 13 and Braden Smith with 12. Kaufman-Renn had 9 rebounds and Smith had 15 assists.
Owen Dease scored 20 for the Islanders. Garry Clark added 14 aspects.
The Boilermakers led 49-33 at halftime, nonetheless the Islanders got as shut as three aspects in the second half of ahead of Purdue pulled away. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi shot 54% in the second half of to win support into the game.
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The Boilermakers shot 56% for the game when compared with forty five% for the Islanders.
Purdue hung its 2024 NCAA Final Four banner with the national finalist ahead of the game. The Boilermakers made the Final Four in 1980 and 1969, finishing runner-up in ’69.
Takeaways Texas A&M-Corpus Christi: The Islanders played successfully in the first 14 minutes of the second half of to battle support from a 16-point halftime deficit to slender the deficit to a few aspects.
Purdue: The Boilermakers weren’t in a spot to place away the Islanders unless the closing six minutes. The Boilermakers were injure by 16 turnovers, seven more than Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Smith dedicated six of those turnovers.
Key second After Clark’s 3-pointer narrowed Purdue’s consequence in 70-67 with 6:43 closing, Loyer fed Jacobsen for an alley-oop that wakened the workers. Purdue held a 20-6 edge the the leisure of the game.
Key stat Colvin came off the bench to rating all 14 of his aspects in the first half of.
Up next Texas A&M-Corpus Christi: Hosts Dallas Christian on Friday.
Purdue: Hosts Northern Kentucky on Friday.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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