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Bryson Scott scored 11 points with six rebounds and two assists in Purdue's win over Indiana.
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- Purdue improved to 114-88 all-time against Indiana, including 31-12 at Mackey Arena. Matt Painter improved his record to 8-8 against the Hoosiers.
- Purdue has recorded back-to-back wins of 16 points or more against Indiana for the first time since March 8, 1969 (120-76) to Feb. 10, 1970 (98-80).
- Purdue won consecutive games against a ranked opponent for the first time since Feb. 16-20, 2011 (Wisconsin, Ohio State).
- Purdue is now at least 5-3 in the Big Ten standings for the first time since the 2010-11 season.
- Purdue's defense held Indiana to 14.3 points below its scoring average and 105 percentage points below its pregame field goal percentage. It marks the seventh time in eight league games that Purdue has held its opponent under their pregame scoring average (Penn State scored 77 points, but were below its average in regulation time).
- Purdue has held five of its eight Big Ten opponents under 38.0 percent shooting from the field.
- Over the last three games, Purdue has given up 59 offensive rebounds, and have been outrebounded by a combined 25 rebounds. Purdue had outrebounded six straight opponents before the Illinois game (three games ago).
- Purdue shot 23-of-32 (.719) from inside the three-point line against Indiana.
- Purdue improved to 82-11 under Painter when shooting 48.0 percent from the field.
- Purdue's 58.7 percent shooting was a season high and highest against Indiana since Feb. 19, 1990 (58.8 percent).
- Purdue's 25 made free throws were the most against Indiana since making 32 on Feb. 10, 1998.
- Indiana had been 27-of-47 (.574) from three-point range in the last two games. The Hoosiers went just 4-of-19 (.211) tonight.
- Purdue has held halftime leads of 10 and 11 during the last two games.
- Purdue improved to 54-7 under Painter when scoring at least 83 points in a game.
- Purdue's 46 points in the paint were the second most of the season (54 vs. Gardner-Webb).
- Purdue now has six players with 100 or more field goal attempts. Of those six, five of them are shooting 49.7 percent or better from the field.
- Purdue's bench scored 31 points (12-of-22 FGs), the most since having 38 against Gardner-Webb.
- Purdue's 10 blocked shots tied a season high (IPFW) and were the most against Indiana in school history. It was also the seventh most in a game in school history. - Rapheal Davis scored 19 points (5-8 FGs, 8-8 FTs), added five rebounds and two assists. He has scored in double-figures in each of the last three games (19.0 PPG). He also held James Blackmon, Jr., to just 4-of-13 shooting from the field. He surpassed 600 career points in the win.
- A.J. Hammons tallied 11 points, and blocked a career-high eight shots, his 10th career game of five or more blocks. His eight blocks were the third most in a game in school history.
- Bryson Scott scored 11 points with a season-high six rebounds and two assists. He entered the game having not scored in Big Ten play.
- Basil Smotherman tallied eight points with four rebounds, two steals and an assist, while going 4-of-4 from the field.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Purdue coach Matt Painter kept imploring his team to play better defense.
He finally got a glimpse at the result Wednesday night.
The Boilermakers clamped down on the Big Ten's best scoring team by harassing Indiana's shooters into tough shots and poor decisions, as Purdue ran away from its biggest rival 83-67.
''We were able to get into those guys and make things tough,'' Rapheal Davis said after scoring 19 points. ''We limited their open looks, got into them early, and got physical early.''
For Purdue (13-8, 5-3) it was another stunning chapter in a turnaround season.
The Boilermakers have now won three of the last four.
And after ending a 13-game losing streak against ranked teams with Saturday's win over Iowa, the Boilermakers have pulled off back-to-back upsets. They're also off to their best conference start since going 6-2 in 2010-11, and they've already matched last season's victory total in league play.
How has Purdue done it? With balanced scoring and a defense that seems to be getting better by the game.
In addition to Davis' big night, Bryson Scott had 11 points and six rebounds while A.J. Hammons finished with 11 points and a career-high eight blocks -- the highest single-game total of any Purdue player other than Joe Barry Carroll, who set the record of 11 in 1977 and had nine in another game in 1978.
''I just thought our attention to detail was really good and never let one of their guys, really get going,'' Painter said after an almost picture-perfect performance.
For Indiana (15-6, 5-3), it was a nightmare.
What impressed Painter most was how Purdue played as a unit.
In the first half, Indiana went nearly 5 1/2 minutes without a basket. After ending that drought, they managed just one basket in the next five minutes - a drought that put the Hoosiers in a 30-15 hole that it never recovered from.
Kevin ''Yogi'' Ferrell scored 15 of his game high 21 points in the second half and James Blackmon Jr. added 13, not nearly enough to prevent the Hoosiers from enduring a two-game skid for the first time this season.
''Really, the hole that we built for ourselves was on the offensive end,'' coach Tom Crean said. ''he hole we built was not moving the ball the way we needed to offensively
With a sellout crowd roaring almost from the moment Mackey Arena filled up, Purdue didn't disappoint.
The Boilermakers used a 10-0 spurt to pull out to a 17-6 lead midway through the first half and followed that with a 10-3 run to make it 30-15.
Indiana got as close as 34-26 with 1:48 left, but a gave up a buzzer-beating layup to fall into a 38-27 halftime deficit.
Purdue scored the first eight points of the second, and Indiana never got closer than 10 the rest of the way.
''Hopefully getting back-to-back Top 25 wins will give us some confidence that we can compete with teams that I feel that are NCAA tournament teams,'' Painter said.
TIP-INS
Hoosiers: Indiana came into the game averaging 81.4 points this season. But it's been a different story in Big Ten play. Indiana has been held to fewer than 80 points six times in eight league games including Wednesday night when they shot just 37.9 percent from the field and had just nine baskets in the first 23 minutes.
Boilermakers: Free throws had been a major problem all season for Purdue - until Wednesday. Purdue put away this victory by going 25 of 33 from the line. It was a stark contrast to their previous six games, when they were just 68 of 117, and their free-throw percentage of 66.8 coming into Wednesday's game.
UP NEXT
Hoosiers: Host Rutgers on Saturday.
Boilermakers: Visit Northwestern on Saturday.
The Hoosiers can't afford to let Wednesday's loss linger. After Rutgers, they visit No. 5 Wisconsin, host defending Big Ten champ Michigan and travel to No. 16 Maryland. The good news: Six of their last 10 Big Ten games are at home.
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