Columbus Standard

Purdue University issued the following announcement on Nov. 20.

[6] Purdue 93, [18] North Carolina 84 (Postgame Notes)

Purdue improved to 4-0 with a 93-84 win over No. 18 North Carolina, in the Hall of Fame Tipoff Classic. The win snapped an eight-game losing streak to North Carolina, dating to a 1977 loss to the Tar Heels.

Purdue is 4-0 for the eighth time in the last 14 years and first time since the 2018-19 season.

Purdue has scored 90-plus points in its first four games for the first time in school history. The last time Purdue scored 90-plus points at any point in the season was during the 1968-69 season (5 games).

Purdue is now 25-24 against nationally-ranked teams since the start of the 2016-17 season.

Purdue shot a season-best 55.7 percent from the field, including 64.3 percent (18-of-28) in the second half. Purdue has now shot at least 50.0 percent in all four games this season.

Purdue had three players score at least 20 points in the same game for the first time since Nov. 24, 1997. Sasha Stefanovic had 23 points, Jaden Ivey had 22 points and Trevion Williams tallied 20 points.

Jaden Ivey recorded his first career double-double with 22 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals.

Purdue's centers (Trevion Williams, Zach Edey) combined for 29 points and seven rebounds in 31 minutes. The duo went 12-of-17 from the field.

Purdue played the last eight minutes of the first half without Williams and Edey on the floor (two fouls each).

Purdue had 21 assists against just nine turnovers, including just two mistakes in the second half.

North Carolina took a one-point lead at 65-64 with 9:19 to play in the game, but Purdue responded with a 10-0 run over the next 1:09 to take a 74-65 lead.

Sasha Stefanovic became the first Purdue player since at least 2010-11 to record at least 23 points and eight assists in the same game. He tied a career high with 23 points and his eight assists were a career high.

Trevion Williams scored 20 points in just 13 minutes of action.

Purdue is now 46-2 since the start of the 2017-18 season when scoring 80 or more points. Purdue has won 106 straight games when scoring 90 or more points.

Purdue is looking to win its first multi-team event title since the 2016 Cancun Challenge.

No. 6 Purdue showed that its high-scoring offense works, no matter the level of competition.

Sasha Stefanovic scored 23 points and Jaden Ivey put up 22 points to go along with his 10 rebounds as the Boilermakers beat No. 18 North Carolina 93-84 Saturday in the first round of the Hall of Fame Tip-Off tournament.

Trevion Williams added 20 points for Purdue (4-0), which has scored at least 90 points in all four of its games this season.

"I don't think we can average 90 points," Purdue coach Matt Painter said. "A lot of people across the country that have players, their offense is better than their defense right now. We're one of those teams."

Dawson Garcia hit 10 of his 13 shots and led North Carolina (3-1) with 26 points before fouling out. R.J. Davis and Caleb Love each added 18 points for the Tar Heels.

Purdue led 41-35 at the half and by eight points early in the second half before the Tar Heels went on a run. A 3-pointer by Davis made it 60-59 and Garcia gave UNC its only lead of the game with a long 3-pointer from the left wing to make it 65-64 with about nine minutes left.

But Purdue responded with 10-0 run, going up 74-65 on a 3-point play by Ivey. UNC could not catch them again.

"I think we were resilient," Ivey said. "There were a couple of times we could have given up and we didn't. We just kept playing, didn't give up and just kept playing hard."

Hubert Davis, who lost for the first time as North Carolina's coach, said there was a lot his team can take from the game.

"Their toughness, their will and their want-to in the second half I thought was really good. It wasn't good enough," he said. "But I was proud of that and I told them that this is a great opportunity for us to learn."

It was the first game between the two programs since November 1999. North Carolina had won eight straight games in the series dating back to the 1970s.

BIG PICTURE

North Carolina: Armando Bacot, who scored 22 and 24 points in the Tar Heels' last two games, had trouble getting over and around Purdue's big men. He finished with just two points in 17 minutes before fouling out.

Purdue: The Boilermakers shot 56% from the floor and made 10 of their 23 attempts from behind the arc.

"To be consistent and advance in the tournament or win a championship in our league, you're going to have to be a good defensive team," Painter said. "We're not going to be able to outscore everybody. The ball doesn't go in like that."

Purdue is looking for its first in-season tournament title since November 2016, when it won in Cancun.

FOUL TROUBLE

The teams combined for 36 fouls, but UNC did not go to the line in the first half — the first time that has happened in seven years. The Tar Heels were 10 of 12 in foul shots in the second half.

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