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Rapheal Davis recorded his second career double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.
GAME NOTES:
- Purdue wraps up non-conference play with an 8-5 record and a 6-2 mark at Mackey Arena. Purdue's three straight losses are the most in non-conference play since the 2005-06 season.
- Over the last three games, Purdue has allowed 88.0 points per game. Foes are shooting 31-of-56 (.554) from three-point range.
- Purdue fell to 52-8 under Painter when scoring 80 or more points. It also fell to 2-32 when allowing 80 or more points.
- Purdue won the rebounding and turnover battle for the seventh time this year, but is just 4-3 this year and is 9-5 since start of last year when accomplishing that feat. Under Painter, Purdue is 82-8 when doing so.
- Gardner-Webb's 14 three-pointers tied for the fourth most by a Purdue opponent in school history.
- Bryson Scott scored 13 points in 13 minutes and now has 34 points in his last 43 minutes played.
- Rapheal Davis recorded his second career double-double with 13 points and a career-high 12 rebounds.
- Purdue is now 16-6 all-time under Painter when five or more players score in double figures.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Jerome Hill scored 31 points and had nine rebounds, and Tyler Strange added 18 points and 10 assists, leading Gardner-Webb to an 89-84 victory against struggling Purdue on Monday night.
The Bulldogs (8-5), who defeated ACC member Clemson in November, added a Big Ten Conference opponent to their list of victims, relying on 3-point shooting and Boilermaker turnovers to hand Purdue (8-5) a third consecutive defeat.
Purdue had a chance to tie with one second remaining, but P.J. Thompson missed a 3-pointer, and Harold McBride made two free throws with 0.5 seconds left to ice it.
Vanderbilt made 9 of 14 attempts from beyond the arc to beat the Boilermakers on Dec. 13, Notre Dame made 8 of 17 this past Saturday and Gardner-Webb was 14 of 25.
Trailing by as many as 17 in the second half, Purdue battled back to within 75-68 on a pair of Jon Octeus free throws with 4:13 remaining and to within 75-70 on two Bryson Scott free throws with 3:54 left. An Octeus 3-pointer and an A.J. Hammons putback cut the deficit to 78-75 with 2:08 to go.
Strange's trey with 1:54 left pushed the Bulldogs lead to 81-75. Strange made a free throw with 1:26 left for an 82-77 advantage.
Rapheal Davis led Purdue with 13 points, 10 in the first half, and grabbed 12 rebounds. Scott also scored 13.
The Bulldogs dominated the second half's first 10 minutes, taking a 61-47 lead on Strange's 3-pointer with 10:53 remaining. At that point, Gardner-Webb was 11 of 21 from beyond the arc, and Purdue was 2 of 9.
Jarvis Davis hit the Bulldogs' sixth trey of the second half with 9:23 remaining to extend their advantage to 69-51 with 9:23 to go.
With Hill scoring 22 points, the Bulldogs erased Purdue's early 15-3 lead, pulling even at 38 through 20 minutes.
Gardner-Webb made 7 of 15 attempts from 3-point range during the first half, while the Boilermakers struggled from beyond the arc, making only 1 of 7.
Purdue was 18 of 34 from the field in the first half (52.9 percent) and outrebounded the Bulldogs 22-12.
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TIP-INS
Gardner-Webb: Entering the game, the Bulldogs ranked 336th nationally among 351 teams in free throw shooting percentage at 59.0 percent. ... Gardner-Webb started no player taller than 6-foot-7. ... The Bulldogs had made 93 of 268 (34.7 percent) of their 3-point attempts coming into the game. ... Tyler Strange ranks seventh nationally in assists per game at 6.8.
Purdue: The Boilermakers had allowed 81 and 94 points, respectively, in consecutive losses to Vanderbilt and Notre Dame. ... A.J. Hammons became the third player in school history to record at least 800 points, 500 rebounds and 200 blocks. ... This was the first meeting ever between the Boilermakers and Gardner-Webb.
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Gardner-Webb will visit Presbyterian on Dec. 31
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