BLOOMINGTON — It was the 209th meeting of Indiana vs Purdue and it lived up to the hype!! Well…it was a close game that came down to the last second. Neither team could buy a basket at the Flea Market with stolen property or food stamps but Purdue held on to win it 48-46. I’ve seen better shooting at high school games bruh!
A month ago the Purdue Boilermakers put that thang on Indiana 70-55 up in West Lafayette. However, here’s the beauty in the rivalry though, boyz had to show up and try to win the rematch in B-Town on Tuesday night. Home court advantage is real in the college game more than you know.
Indiana showed up like Aretha Franklin with a “New Attitude” and went toe to toe with these boyz in the first half getting to the break all knotted up at 20 apiece. They held Carsen Edwards, who averages 24 points per game, to a mere 3 points in the first half. Ole boy couldn’t hit an elephant in the butt with a base fiddle. That dun couldn’t hit water if he’d fallen out of a boat bruh. He was 1-11 from the field and 0-5 from behind the arc.
However, on the other side of the floor Romeo Langford was holding the Hoosiers down with 9 points with 4 of them coming from foul shots. Neither team could shoot worth a darn as the Hoosiers shot 23 percent from the field, 25 percent from three-point range and 55 percent from the free throw line. The Boilermakers were just as bad and even worse from behind the three-point line. They were shooting 25 percent from the field, only 16 percent from three and 20 percent from the foul line.
As the teams walked out onto the floor to start the second half Romeo Langford is taken back to the locker room with and apparent upset stomach because he regurgitated.
Purdue jumped out of the ride and went on 5-0 run. IU’s Rob Phinisee draws blood with a mid range jumper to put the Hoosiers on the board in the second half. With 15:42 left to play Romeo Langford comes back out the locker room. Apparently he was feeling better.
The Hoosiers regained the lead 38-37 on a De’Ron Davis lay up with 6:03 left to play. They hadn’t led since the 10:05 mark of the first half. They seemed to be primed to pull away but the Boilermakers had on their big boy pants and kept on fighting.
With 40 seconds left Carsen Edwards gets to the rack to take the lead 46-45. On the next possession Romeo Langford is fouled and knocks down the first of two free throws to knot it up at 46-46. Matt Painter being as cool as Dolomite with an S-Curl from the ’70’s tries to ice him, calls a timeout and it works like a charm!!! Ole boy misses his first free throw of the night. He finished 9 of 10 from the foul line.
The Boilermakers hustled it back down the floor and Matt Haarms got the tip in off of a Carsen Edwards miss to go up 48-46 with 3.1 seconds left. Archie Miller calls a time out. Indiana has to go the length of the floor and but doesn’t get the ball into Romeo Langford’s hands. Instead, Juwan Morgan takes the final shot for the Hoosiers and misses it off of the front end. Ball game Boilermakers!!!
Big props to Purdue for showing up in Bloomington in a hostile environment and getting the “W.” However, it’s freakin’ incredible to me that Archie Miller would call a timeout and not get the ball into the hands of his best player to close the game out. INCREDIBLE!!! Not only that, dun didn’t even try to get into a position to get the ball.
On some real talk, this game was one of the worse shooting performances I’ve ever seen. Purdue won the darn game shooting 31 percent from the field, 20 percent from three and 44 percent from the free throw line. Incredible!!!
The Hoosiers finished the night shooting 28 percent from the field, 21 percent from three and 61 percent from the foul line. Say it with me, “Incredible!!!”
There were only two players in the ENTIRE game that finished in double figures. Cline from Purdue had 11 and Langford from IU had 14. INCREDIBLE!!! Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.