Seventy five percent of the time they won.
And yet they lost.
In Friday’s 2017-18 season opener the CMU women’s basketball team outscored visiting Purdue in three of the game’s four quarters and even held a 16-point lead in the second quarter.
However, the Boilermakers used a 36-13 third-quarter run to race out of McGuirk Arena with a 79-69 victory.
The Chippewas turned in a fine first half, outside of the closing minute, and went into the half leading 37-25. At that point it appeared the hosts just might beat a solid Big Ten foe.