Number 9 Purdue hosted Arkansas- Pine Bluff this past Saturday in Mackey Arena. The final score was 90- 42, making the win for Purdue the 7th largest win margin in school history, and the second biggest win margin in Mackey Arena.
JaJuan Johnson led the team along with scoring a career high of 20 points for the Boilers. Johnson had 14 points and three dunks in the first half as the Boilermakers led 44-23 at the break. A few other Boilers in the spot light were E’Twaun Moore, who had 15 points and six steals, Nemanja Calasan had 13 rebounds and 23 points, and Marcus Green scores 12 points for Purdue, who is now 6-2. The Boilermakers forced 35 turnovers and their defense stopped the Pine Bluff from having a high percentage of shooting, which was only 23 percent.
Purdue came back from a two game loosing streak against No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 4 Duke. But they came back from that streak and stopped it from being the first of a two game loosing streak since the end of the 2005- 2006 season.
Now for the Golden Lions, who are 0 and 7 so far this season. Tyree Glass led Pine Bluff with 18 points, but on the bad hand had 11 turnovers. He was the leading scorer considering no other player scored over 6 points the whole game.
Pine Bluff has lost every game this season by double digits. Its closest game was a 14-point loss at Nebraska. The Golden Lions have lost their games by an average of 32 points. The second half was just a repeat of the first pretty much.
Purdue’s next basketball game is on the road at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana on December 9 at 7:00 p.m. Ball State University has a record so far of 4-3. Arkansas Pine Bluff is against SMU Dallas Texas at December 12 at 7:00 p.m.
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