Trey Kaufman-Renn scored a game-high 18 points as No. 6 Purdue rolled to an 80-45 win over visiting Marshall on Saturday afternoon in West Lafayette, Ind.
With starting center Daniel Jacobsen out with a leg injury, Purdue tweaked its lineup as Camden Heide and Myles Colvin got their first career starts and scored 13 points each.
Nate Martin scored nine points and pulled down seven rebounds to lead Marshall.
Heide wasted no time making the most of the opportunity, scoring eight straight Purdue points. He punctuated his scoring spurt with back-to-back 3-pointers for a 20-10 lead.
Purdue (5-1) bounced back from its first regular-season nonconference loss since 2020 on Tuesday at No. 15 Marquette with swarming defensive pressure.
The Thundering Herd (3-2) were held to 30.2 percent shooting from the field (16-for-53) and 12.5 percent on shots from behind the arc (4-for-32). Marshall had 19 turnovers, leading to 23 Purdue points.
Meanwhile, Purdue shot 50 percent from the field (24-for-48) and 6-of-16 (37.5 percent) from 3-point land.
The Boilermakers turned Marshall turnovers into fastbreak offense as Braden Smith (nine assists, three steals) notched a steal and set up Raleigh Burgess (six points, five rebounds) on a backdoor cut for a two-hand slam. The dunk put the Boilermakers up 28-12 with 9:26 left in the half.
Scrambling and switching in its man-to-man defense, Purdue stymied the Thundering Herd into a shot-clock violation in a stretch when the visitors went scoreless in a five-minute span.
Two free throws from Fletcher Loyer gave the Boilermakers their largest lead of the first half at 33-14. Kaufman-Renn followed Heide’s first-half lead with his own scoring outburst in the second half as he tallied eight straight points, building Purdue’s lead to 47-27 with 16:42 left.
After a 12-0 run boosted the Boilermakers’ advantage to 28, an offensive rebound set up Colvin’s corner 3-pointer as Purdue took its first 30-point lead at 63-32 with 10:40 remaining.
–Field Level Media
