The holidays may be over, but it was a silent night for the Rutgers men’s basketball team on Wednesday. In the first game of 2018 and just the second road game of the season, Rutgers was overwhelmed by a superior basketball team in #13th ranked Purdue. Give credit to the Scarlet Knights, who battled a far more talented team to the very end and never quit in this game, but simply didn’t have any answer for the Big Ten defending champions, who are an explosive and balanced squad again this season.
After a Deshawn Freeman dunk cut the lead to 9-7, Purdue rolled off a 14-2 run that included three wide open three-pointers, two of which were from Dakota Mathias.