A step-back three by Jaden Ivey with 1:01 remaining helped push the No. 3-seed Purdue Boilermakers past the No. 6-seed Texas Longhorns on Sunday night in Milwaukee, 81-71, in a hard-fought NCAA Tournament contest.
Ivey’s three, which came after shaking the tenacious defense of Texas guard Courtney Ramey, who helped hold the Purdue star without a field-goal attempt in the first half, splashed through the net as the Boilermakers led by three points against a Longhorns team that refused to go away. After Ramey’s ball-denial defense took Ivey almost entirely out of the game in the opening 20 minutes, the standout sophomore scored 15 of his 18 points in the second half.