Purdue edges Texas 79-77
#2 Purdue Boilermakers held off #11 Texas Longhorns 79-77 on Thursday at SAP Center at San Jose.
The first half made the difference: Purdue outscored Texas 39-35.
Purdue shot 48% to 52% and won the boards 32-31.
For Purdue, Trey Kaufman-Renn (F): 20. For Texas, Tramon Mark (G): 29.
Purdue improves to 30-8. Texas falls to 21-15.
Attendance: 15,341.
Full recap at ESPN: Kaufman-Renn tips in game-winner to send No. 2 seed Purdue past 11th-seeded Texas 79-77 in Sweet 16Written automatically from the box score. Every number comes straight from the game feed.






