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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Morehead State men's basketball fell, 90-56, at No. 15 Purdue on Saturday afternoon.
With the loss, the Eagles' losing streak moves to five games and their record falls to 2-5. The Boilermakers improve to 6-2 on the year.
"Purdue deserves a lot of credit. They are a very balanced team. A lot of the time, a team with that size isn't a great shooting team, but we knew they were a great shooting team," said interim head coach
Preston Spradlin. "But, I thought our guys competed. We did some good things. We were really working on us and this is an opportunity for all of us to keep learning."
Early in the game, the Boilermakers jumped out to a 25-9 lead, but the Eagles responded with an 8-0 run spurred by senior
Xavier Moon and sophomore
Lamontray Harris to trim that lead to 25-17.
But, Purdue extended their lead to 47-25 at the half and went on to win, 90-56.
Morehead State shot an impressive 8-of-20 from the three-point line, but Purdue began the game 6-of-6 from deep and finished 15-of-29 from beyond the arc.
The Boilermakers shot 56 percent for the game and 60 percent in the second half, while the Eagles shot 37 percent from the floor.
Purdue shot 7-of-14 from the free throw line, while MSU did not get to the stripe.
The Eagles barely lost the rebounding battle, 38-34, but they did manage to finish with more offensive rebounds than the Boilermakers, 10-9.
Sophomore
Miguel Dicent led the way for Morehead State with a team-high 11 points and five assists, while senior
DeJuan Marrero finished with 10 points and five rebounds. Harris nearly recorded his first career double-double with nine points and nine rebounds.
The Eagles are back in action next Saturday at 5 p.m. as they face Lipscomb in Nashville. The Eagles defeated the Bisons at Johnson Arena, 89-75, in the second game of the year.
