Sixth-ranked Purdue can be trying to construct on a decisive bounce-back victory when it hosts Marquette in a nonconference recreation on Saturday in West Lafayette, Ind.
Purdue (9-1) defeated visiting Minnesota 85-57 on Wednesday, led by a dominant second half after holding a 35-32 edge on the break. The Boilermakers had been coming off their first lack of the season, 81-58 to then-No. 10 Iowa State on Dec. 6, a end result that dropped them out of the highest spot within the ballot.
“I did not stroll away from the Iowa State recreation and say, ‘Nicely, we’re not No. 1 anymore,'” Painter mentioned following the Minnesota recreation. “I walked away from the Iowa State recreation saying we obtained our ass kicked and the way may I’ve stopped that?”
Purdue opened the second half towards Minnesota with a decisive 21-0 run, the Boilermakers’ third run of 20-0 or longer this season.
“Clearly you possibly can’t go on runs like that until you get stops,” Painter mentioned. “And so, I believed our consideration to element defensively was fairly good.”
Purdue’s Braden Smith, Trey Kaufman-Renn and Oscar Cluff every completed with a double-double.
Smith had 15 factors with 12 assists, six rebounds, 5 steals and two blocks. Kaufman-Renn recorded his fifth double-double this season with 14 factors and 10 rebounds, and Cluff had his third double-double of the season with 14 factors and 11 rebounds.
Purdue averages 85.2 factors per recreation whereas permitting 67.9. The Boilermakers have been dominant on the glass, outrebounding opponents by 10.4 per recreation.
Fletcher Loyer averages a team-high 14.0 factors per recreation for the Boilermakers, whereas Kaufman-Renn provides 13.9 factors and 10.6 boards. Cluff averages 11.4 factors and 9.1 rebounds, and Smith contributes 13.3 factors and eight.8 assists — the latter determine rating second within the nation.
Marquette (5-5) has been inconsistent in shedding 4 of its previous six video games. The Golden Gophers are coming off a 96-76 nonconference highway loss towards in-state rival Wisconsin on Dec. 6.
The Golden Eagles hit simply one in all their first 13 photographs towards Wisconsin and one in all their first 12 3-point makes an attempt. Of their earlier recreation, a 75-72 additional time house win over Valparaiso, Marquette began 1 of 13 from past the arc.
Marquette scored eight of its 10 factors in additional time from the free-throw line to beat the Beacons. Towards the Badgers, the Golden Eagles made simply 9 of 19 photographs from the stripe.
The Golden Eagles common 80.9 factors whereas giving up 76.4, however they’re capturing simply 42.5% on the season, together with 31.1% from 3-point vary.
Marquette shot 42% towards Wisconsin after capturing simply 35% towards Valparaiso. In three of their losses, the Golden Eagles shot 38.5% or much less.
“I believed we obtained quite a lot of good photographs that didn’t go in,” Marquette coach Shaka Sensible mentioned following the Wisconsin recreation. “Thus far the story of our season. So we have to get higher at making these, and we’ll.”
Chase Ross averages 19.5 factors per recreation, freshman Nigel James Jr. provides 12.2 factors and Ben Gold chips in with 9.5 factors and team-best 7.2 rebounds.
Marquette defeated Purdue 76-58 final season in Milwaukee behind a triple-double by Kam Jones.
“We now have been blessed and lucky to have some actually good groups of late, and this group’s behind these groups proper now,” Sensible mentioned. “That is a truth. And we have to get higher and we’ll.”
–Area Degree Media
