Utah State exits NCAA Match at fingers of top-seeded Purdue

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INDIANAPOLIS — Utah State’s basketball season got here to an finish Sunday afternoon by the hands of Zach Edey and the top-seeded Purdue Boilermakers in a 106-67 loss.

Edey was unstoppable all night, main his crew in a bodily assault of Utah State. It compelled the Aggies to play a mode of basketball that has not been their recurring model all season, on the lookout for outdoors photographs first and discovering methods to win with restricted factors within the paint and second-chance factors.

Edey, the 7-foot-4, 300-pound massive man, completed with 14 rebounds and 23 factors on 8-of-11 taking pictures. The efficiency is one which has develop into typical of him. Edey swept all six Nationwide Participant of the 12 months awards final season and is effectively positioned for comparable success this season.

Edey and Purdue led the Aggies in factors within the paint (44-18), in second-chance factors (18-5), and in whole rebounds (49-26).

To make issues worse, Isaac Johnson and Khalifa Sakho every picked up two fouls within the first 4 minutes of play, placing the Aggies in early foul bother. The Aggies fouled their opponent 13 occasions and gave up 12 factors from the free-throw line within the first half alone.

The Aggies hung with the Boilermakers via a lot of the primary half, main a number of occasions; nonetheless, there was a brief stretch the place Purdue went on a 16-0 run and the Aggies missed greater than 10 straight discipline aim makes an attempt, all however knocking the Aggies out of the sport earlier than the top of the primary half.

Purdue entered the locker room with a 16-point benefit.

The second half featured a discouraged Aggies crew that was outplayed for all 20 minutes, finally main the highly effective Boilermakers to a powerful 41-point lead and a ticket to the Candy 16.

For the Aggies, a number of gamers completed scoring in double digits, together with Nice Osobor, Josh Uduje, Darius Brown II, and Ian Martinez.

With their elimination, the Aggies completed with a 28-7 file in Danny Sprinkle’s first season as their head coach.

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