Oscar Cluff’s 15 factors led seven gamers in double figures for No. 1 Purdue in an 86-56 romp previous No. 15 Texas Tech within the title sport of the Baha Mar Championship on Friday evening at Nassau, Bahamas.
Trey Kaufman-Renn posted 12 factors, reserves Omer Mayer and Daniel Jacobsen every scored 11, and C.J. Cox, Braden Smith and Fletcher Loyer all checked in with 10 factors. Cluff, a switch from South Dakota State who led the group in scoring for the primary time, additionally had 15 rebounds.
JT Toppin scored 15 factors and Christian Anderson notched 13 factors for Texas Tech (4-2), which did not attain the 50-point mark till the ultimate 70 seconds. Toppin additionally had eight rebounds.
The Purple Raiders shot 33.3% from the sphere, together with 8-for-34 on 3-point launches. Regardless of so many missed photographs, Texas Tech collected solely 9 offensive rebounds.
The Boilermakers (6-0) did not expertise lots of the glitches that got here a day earlier once they needed to overcome Memphis down the stretch.
Purdue’s offense clicked with a wide range of high-percentage photographs. Cluff was 6-for-8 from the sphere and Kaufman-Renn went 6-for-9 from the ground. 5 of the Boilermakers linked on at the least one 3-point shot.
After holding a 49-26 halftime lead, the Boilermakers rattled off the primary eight factors of the second half. Texas Tech did not rating for the primary 5 1/2 minutes of the second half till Toppin’s tip-in.
Shortly after that, the Purple Raiders had one other span of practically two minutes with out scoring.
Texas Tech had a late rally to knock off Wake Forest on Thursday, however the Purple Raiders weren’t shut sufficient to consider pulling off one other victory on this journey.
Purdue led 26-23 with seven minutes to play within the first half. However the remainder of the half, Texas Tech had solely Anderson’s 3-point basket within the final minute of play.
The ultimate rating was Purdue’s second-largest margin this season, behind solely an 82-51 pounding of Evansville within the opener.
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