Haarms’ late tip-in sends No. 15 Purdue past Indiana
BLOOMINGTON, IND. » Matt Haarms tipped in a basket with 3.2 seconds remaining to lift No. 15 Purdue over Indiana 48-46 Tuesday night.
Ryan Cline had 11 points, and Haarms finished with six for the Boilermakers (197, 12-3 Big Ten), who have won three straight at Assembly Hall for the first time in school history.
It didn’t come easily. Indiana’s Romeo Langford scored 14 points despite not taking a shot in the second half, and Juwan Morgan’s
3-pointer grazed the rim at the buzzer. Morgan had nine points and 11 rebounds as Indiana (13-13, 4-11) lost its fourth straight overall and fifth in a row in the series.
It was rivalry basketball at its ugliest. Players repeatedly hit the deck. Rebounds bounced off the floor. The unforgiving rims made the teams look like they were playing with peach baskets, and the Hoosiers’ students serenaded Haarms with boos and chants each time he was involved in a play after locking arms with Indiana’s De’Ron Davis and falling to the floor late in the first half.
It was the lowest scoring game in the series since Jan.
21, 1950, when the Hoosiers won 49-39 at Purdue.
(5) TENNESSEE 58, VANDERBILYT 46 » Grant Williams had
14 points and 11 rebounds, and Tennessee (24-2, 12-1 SEC) beat Vanderbilt (9-17, 0-13) in the Volunteers’ first game since losing their No. 1 ranking.
Tennessee bounced back from its first loss since Thanksgiving week, an 86-69 defeat at No. 4 Kentucky on Saturday to snap a school-record 19-game winning streak.
Vanderbilt dropped its
14th straight, matching the longest skid in school history. (25) BUFFALO 114, OHIO 67 » Jayvon Graves scored a career-high 26 points and Buffalo (23-3, 11-2 MAC) used a record-setting shooting performance to cruise to a win
over Ohio (11-14, 3-10)) for its
23rd straight home win. The Bulls set school records for 3-pointers made
(19) and point scored against a Division I opponent.