Hammer and Rails · Jan 17, 2022
Purdue 96, Illinois 88: Double OT Shootout at High Noon
Just about tip-off, what was already a highly anticipated match-up between two ranked teams, Purdue became the #4 in the country according to the AP poll and Illinois #17 and the top-20 matchup in Champaigne lived up to all the hype as Purdue bests Illinois on the road, 96-88, in double-overtime.
It was a match-up of some of the best bigs in the country between Illinois’s Kofi Cockburn and Purdue’s two-headed monster, Zach Edey and Trevion Williams, and it was the biggest man making his claim as the best center in the country.