WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. - Sometimes the other team just doesn’t miss.
Northwestern learned that the hard way Wednesday night at Mackey Arena as the Purdue Boilermakers shot 52 percent from downtown on their way to an easy 80-59 victory.
After missing its first three-pointer to start the game, Purdue hit six of its next seven attempts from deep and four in a row as it went on a 12-0 run early on that set the tone for a first half that would put the game out of reach.
The run negated a decent start from Northwestern and buried the team in a hole that it just couldn’t climb out of.