- Purdue improved to 31-4 overall with a 106-67 win over No. 8-seed Utah State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
- The 31 wins are a school record, surpassing the 30 wins recorded by the 2017-18 team (30-7).
- Purdue has reached the Sweet 16 for the fifth time in the last seven years, the second-most appearances in the country during that span (Gonzaga – 7). It marks the seventh trip of the Matt Painter era.
- Purdue improved to 8-0 this season against nationally-ranked teams, winning by an average of 10.1 points per game. Purdue is 11-2 against the top 25 since the start of last season.
- Purdue has won 19 straight games against in the regular-season and postseason against teams that are in a power-conference or nationally ranked.
- Purdue won its first two games in the NCAA Tournament by a combined 67 points (78-50 vs. Grambling; 106-67 vs. Utah State).
- Purdue's 106 points are the most in any game since Nov. 2017 (106 vs. Fairfield) and the most in the NCAA Tournament in school history.
- The 106 points are the most for a Big Ten team in an NCAA Tournament game since 1999.
- The 39-point margin was the fourth-largest point differential in an NCAA Tournament round of 32 game and the largest margin since 1999.
- The 39-point margin was the second-largest margin in a 1 vs. 8 matchup in NCAA Tournament history (North Carolina 112, Rhode Island 67; March 20, 1993).
- Purdue's 29 assists were the third most in an NCAA Tournament game in school history, and the most since 1998. Purdue committed just nine turnovers.
- Purdue's 55.9 field goal percentage (38-of-68) was its highest percentage in an NCAA Tournament game since 1999.
- Purdue's +23 (49-26) rebound margin was its largest in NCAA Tournament history.
- Zach Edey became the first player since Lew Alcindor (1968) to have at least 50 points, 35 rebounds and shoot 65 percent from the field in the first two NCAA Tournament games. Edey has 53 points and 35 rebounds while shooting 19-of-28 (.679) from the field in the first two games.
- Edey has scored at least 22 points in 12 straight games (26.4 PPG, 12.8 RPG).
- Zach Edey became the first player with three straight NCAA Tournament games with at least 20 points and three blocks since Shaquille O'Neal (1991, 1992).
- Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 18 points and tied a career-high with eight rebounds. In the two NCAA Tournament games so far this year, Kaufman-Renn has 29 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists in 46 minutes.
- Braden Smith became the fifth player in NCAA history with 425 points, 250 assists and 200 rebounds in a season, now with 430 points, 256 assists and 200 rebounds (UCLA's Lonzo Ball, BYU's Kyle Collinsworth, California's Jason Kidd, Michigan State's Magic Johnson).
- Fletcher Loyer tallied 15 points and a season-high six assists. In his last seven games, Loyer is 13-of-18 (.722) from 3-point range.
INDIANAPOLIS — Zach Edey had 23 points and 14 rebounds, and No. 1 seed Purdue cruised into the Sweet 16 by pounding eighth-seeded Utah State 106-67 with an impressive offensive performance in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday.
Trey Kaufman-Renn added 18 points and eight boards for Purdue (31-7), which broke the school's single-season record for victories. Fletcher Loyer had 15 points, and Braden Smith had all six of his assists in the second half when the Boilermakers shot 65.2% from the field before pulling the starters.
Purdue also set a school record for most points in a March Madness game. Next up is fifth-seeded Gonzaga in the Midwest Region semifinals in Detroit.
Great Osodor, the Mountain West Player of the Year, had 14 points and six rebounds for Utah State. The Aggies (28-7) were outrebounded 49-26, and they headed home still in search of the program's first regional semifinal since 1970.
The biggest reason this time was Edey, who had another dominant showing in Indianapolis, just 60 miles southeast of campus.
Purdue's career scoring and rebounding leader looks as if he's on a mission to add to his legacy following last year's first-round exit at the hands of 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson.
Another win would put Purdue in its first Elite Eight since 2019, when it lost in overtime to eventual national champ Virginia — one year after the Cavaliers became the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed, UMBC.
With the 7-foot-4, 300-pound Edey in the middle, the Boilermakers are hoping to follow in that same path that the Cavs did when they won it all.
Edey also had three blocks, three assists and two steals in just 26 minutes against the Aggies. On Friday, he needed only 30 minutes to post the first 30-point, 20-rebound double-double during March Madness since 1995.
He became the first player with three consecutive NCAA tourney games with at least 20 points and three blocks since Shaquille O'Neal for LSU in the 1991 and 1992 tournaments, according to OptaSTATS.
Utah State threw everything it had at the giant Toronto native. It sent multiple players at him, tried to get physical and tried to frustrate him. Nothing worked.
There were murmurs in the crowd following a slow, back-and-forth start. But as Utah State's front line quickly got into foul trouble, Edey controlled the middle.
He scored the first four points in a game-changing 16-0 spurt that ended with Purdue holding a 39-24 lead.
Then the 3-point shooters got going, spurring a 20-6 run to open the second half that extended a 49-33 halftime margin to 69-39.