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Purdue's slide continues in shocking second-half landslide at Indiana

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Purdue's Trey Kaufman-Renn (4) is tied up by Indiana's Malik Reneau (5) and Trey Galloway (32) during the Indiana versus Purdue mens basketball game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Purdue was sitting pretty at halftime Sunday at Indiana, having surged to a 37-25 lead after a run of hot shooting.

Then, it all fell apart, sending the Boilermakers’ season-changing losing streak to four games, on the wrong end of a stunning 73-58 Hoosier win, a 27-point turnaround from one half to the next.

“Total lack of concentration, more than anything, on our part,” Coach Matt Painter said. “… We just played a half of basketball where their pressure didn’t bother us at all, then it was like Purdue beating Purdue.”

Turnovers had just gotten Purdue beat at Michigan State and the same story played out in Bloomington

PDF: Purdue-Indiana statistics

IU outscored Purdue 28-3 to open the second half as the visitors collapsed under the weight of the Hoosiers’ increased defensive pressure. That was the game, as IU finished with 21 points off 15 Purdue turnovers. Big Ten leading scorer Trey Kaufman-Renn fouled out with a season-low nine points on 4-of-11 shooting. Braden Smith was held to just eight but committed six turnovers for the second game in a row.

Kaufman-Renn and Smith each had turnovers taken the other way for Hoosier scores in the first 1:20 of the half.

“I came out and had some costly turnovers that screwed us,” Smith said. “They got transition points off that. It started with that. I have to do a better job.”

It was all downhill from there.

“To say we lost our composure is an understatement,” Painter.

Purdue seemed to break the game open in its favor by outscoring IU 24-6 over the final 11-and-a-half minutes of the first half after the Hoosiers abused their visitors in the paint to open the game. Myles Colvin sucker-punched IU with three first-half threes, while Indiana missed eight straight and finished the half 1-for-11, trends that turned hard after halftime.

Fletcher Loyer scored a team-high 20 points.

After Wisconsin and Michigan State combined to shoot 70 percent in second halves, IU shot 64.

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