Lance Jones leads second half explosion, Boilers win going away

November 11, 2023 Broadcast, College 0

The Drum Beat
Purdue Basketball
Shawn Martin
Excelhsports.com
November 10, 2023
PURDUE MOVES TO 2-0 WITH DOMINATE SECOND HALF

The 3rd ranked Purdue Men’s Basketball team jumped quickly on Morehead State, forcing an Eagle timeout 2:39 minutes into the game with Purdue up 8-0. The opening run would stretch to 15 when sophomore point guard Brayden Smith hit a jumper with 15:47 left in the first half.

The Boilermakers would comfortably win 87-57 in front of 14,876 in Mackey Arena and move to 2-0 on the young season.
After their second dominating start in as many games – Purdue jumped on Samford to start 14-1 November 6th – the Eagles found their shooting touch while the home team cooled off.
Riley Minix – a 6-7 Grad Transfer for the Eagles – torched the Boilers for ten points in three minutes and twenty seconds and the lead was cut to nine, 26-17, with 8:54 left in the opening stanza.
That is as close as Morehead State would get for the remainder of the game. Coach Matt Painter’s squad led 42-29 at halftime.
Purdue Grad Transfer guard Lance Jones had two points at halftime. He opened the Boilermakers second half scoring with a driving layup in traffic at the 18:36 mark. After a Trey Kaufman-Renn layup, Smith found Jones on the left wing, where he drilled a three-pointer, igniting the sellout crowd, and pushing Eagles coach Preston Spradlin to use another timeout. Purdue led 49-32.
Jones wasn’t done.
He tossed a perfect pass for a Zach Edey dunk, then hit two three pointers – the second from 30 feet in front of the Purdue bench.  Eleven points and an assist in a little more than five minutes of the second half!
Jones would finish with 15 points on 6 of 10 shooting (3-6 from 3-pt range), five rebounds and three assists in 26 minutes.
Reigning National Player of the Year Zach Edey led Purdue with 18 points and eight rebounds in 24 minutes. He was 8-9 from the free throw line. Smith had a Double-Double – 11 points and 11 assists (only two turnovers) in 29 minutes. Kaufman-Renn added nine points, Mason Gillis and Myles Colvin contributed 8 each.
Minix ended with 18. Jordan Lathon had 12 points and 8 rebounds for Morehead State.
The Boilers will be tested a lot more Monday night when they host Big East member Xavier (2-0) in Mackey. The Eagles (1-2) will host Mercer on Tuesday.
Credit Source below: Purdue Athletics

Purdue 87, Morehead State 57 (Postgame Notes)

  • No. 3-ranked Purdue improved to 2-0 with an 87-57 win over Morehead State on Friday night in Mackey Arena.
  • The win was Purdue’s 26th straight regular-season, non-conference victory – a new school record. The streak is now almost double the second-longest, active streak nationally (UConn – 13).
  • Purdue has also won 22 straight at Mackey Arena against non-conference foes, spanning over four calendar years (Nov. 9, 2019 vs. Texas).
  • The Boilermakers have won 16 straight games in the month of November – the second-longest streak in the country (Arizona – 24).
  • Purdue’s next nine games are the following: Xavier, vs. Gonzaga, vs. Tennessee or Syracuse, vs. Kansas, Marquette, UCLA or Chaminade, Texas Southern, at Northwestern, Iowa, vs. Alabama and vs. Arizona.
  • In the win over Samford to start the season, Purdue jumped out to an 11-0 and 21-1 lead. In the win over Morehead State, Purdue jumped out to a 15-0 lead.
  • Purdue has won its first two games by at least 30 points for the first time since the 2017-18 season. The Boilermakers have also shot at least 54 percent from the field in the first two games for the first time since that 2017-18 season.
  • Through two games this year, Purdue has 48 assists against 23 turnovers.
  • Through the first two games, opponents are shooting just 12-of-62 (.194) from 3-point range, and 29.6 percent overall.
  • Purdue had three runs of at least 7-0 in the win over Morehead State, and now has 11 runs of 7-0 or longer this season. The opponent’s longest run this season has been five points.
  • Purdue has won 51 straight games when scoring at least 80 points, dating to Dec. 2018.
  • Since the 2015-26 season, Purdue has won 34 games by 30 or more points, now the fourth-highest total in the country.
  • Zach Edey moved into 21st on the school’s career scoring list with 1,567 points after 18 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocked shots in the win over Morehead State.
  • Edey also moved into sixth place on the school’s career rebounds list (866 rebounds).
  • Edey now has 34 points, 19 rebounds, 7 blocks and 5 assists in 44 minutes this season. He has scored 34 points on 14 field goal attempts and drawn 16 fouls.
  • Braden Smith narrowly missed a triple-double, tallying 11 points, 11 assists, 8 rebounds and 3 steals in just 29 minutes in the win over Morehead State. He became the first Boilermaker with a points-assists double-double since Lewis Jackson in March 2012.
  • In two games this year, Smith has 23 points, 18 assists, 12 rebounds and 4 steals (11.5 PPG, 9.0 APG, 6.0 RPG, 2.0 SPG).
  • Lance Jones tallied 15 points, five rebounds and three assists in the win.
  • Smith and Jones combined for 26 points, 14 assists, 13 rebounds and 4 steals in the victory.

 

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