BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Purdue women's basketball team fell on the road to No. 14/13 Indiana on Sunday afternoon at Assembly Hall.
For the second straight game, Mary Ashley Stevenson led the way on the offensive end with 16 points on 7-of-9 shooting and one 3-pointer. She was joined in double figures by Caitlyn Harper's 13 points, and Sophie Swanson connected on a trio of 3-pointers to finish with 11 points.
The Boilermakers (10-13, 3-9) shot an even 50% from the field in the first half and finished with a 45.1% clip overall for the game. Purdue was 5-of-13 from distance.
The Purdue freshmen combined for 31 points, marking the fifth game this season the rookies tallied 30 or more.
Jeanae Terry led Purdue in rebounding with seven. Rashunda Jones came off the bench to post five assists and a pair of steals. Four Boilermakers recorded a block, including the first career rejection by Swanson.
Indiana (20-3, 11-2) put four players in double figures. The Hoosiers shot 59% from the floor and went 13-of-21 from behind the arc. Indiana converted 14 Boilermaker turnovers into 12 points and flipped six offensive rebounds into 13 points.
The Boilermakers trailed by four after the opening 10 minutes despite four turnovers and early foul trouble. Stevenson tallied a game-high seven points, while the Boilermakers hit two of their opening three 3-point attempts.
Purdue's freshmen tallied 12 of the team's 16 points in the second quarter. Swanson tallied five, and McKenna Layden added four off the bench. Stevenson jumped into double figures with a traditional 3-point play midway through the break.
Indiana opened the third on a 14-4 run and extended the gap to 25 points. The Hoosiers connected on six triples in the period, as Purdue was 4-of-12 from the field and 8-of-9 at the line.
In the fourth, Swanson made a pair of 3-pointers, while Stevenson added four. The tandem scored eight points in a 10-3 run midway through the gap, but the Hoosiers went 9-of-13 shooting in the final 10 minutes.
NOTES
• Purdue leads the all-time series with Indiana 55-42.
• Purdue put two freshmen in double figures for the eighth time this season, a Big Ten best.
• Stevenson has reached double figures in 11 games this season, the most by a Purdue freshman since Karissa McLaughlin in 2017-18.
• Abbey Ellis is now nine points away from 1,000 as a Boilermaker.
• Purdue's bench scored 21 points, finishing with 20 or more for the 12th time this season.
• Jeanae Terry is now 98 rebounds shy of 1,000 for her career.
• Madison Layden sits 51 points away from 1,000 in her career.
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Purdue will continue its two-game road swing on Wednesday night with an 8 p.m. ET tip at Northwestern on B1G+.