By the Numbers: Purdue 93 Indiana 64

Now that’s what a Final Four team is supposed to look like! Purdue fired on all cylinders in a home blowout of the Indiana Hoosiers in a game that the Boilers used to vault themselves firmly into the 2 seed line for the NCAA Tournament committee’s pre-selection show. The Boilers overwhelmed an overmatched Hoosiers squad that struggled to get themselves on track offensively and couldn’t play aggressive without fouling. It left Mackey Arena satisfied after several weeks of games where it just seemed like the Boilers didn’t feel comfortable at home.

Let’s jump into the game ‘By the Numbers’:

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It was very apparent early on that the Boilers were firing on all cylinders as they jumped out to a double-digit lead for the first time at 25-14 with 6:52 left in the first half after a Trey Kaufman-Renn ‘And-1’ bucket (he would go on to convert the free throw to push the lead to 12 as well). The Hoosiers would never get within single digits of the Boilers the rest of the game as Purdue would push their halftime lead to 46-29. The lead would balloon to 34 on the back of a scoring flurry from freshman Omar Mayer after he scored 8 points in 2 minutes of game play.

Purdue would eventually settle at 29 points with their 93-64 with an Aaron Fine crossover layup. That twenty nine point victory is the largest victory for the Boilers in their series against the Hoosiers since a 120-76 win in 1969 and the 8th largest among the 129 victories in the series since the 1912-1913 season.

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Welcome to the party Omar Mayer! The freshman from Israel scored a career high 18 points on 6-8 shooting overall and 4-5 from behind the arc. He has been fantastic over the last several games as he has shown why he was so heavily thought of coming into the season. Since the Maryland game, a stretch of 6 games, Mayer has averaged 8 points on 48.5% shooting from the field and 50% from behind the arc (10/20). Against the Hoosiers, he had a stretch where he scored 14 of…

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