JConline: Boilermakers rout Illini in Big Ten tourney
Rapheal Davis easily recalled the list off the top of his head.
Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana — all of them had beaten the Purdue men’s basketball team this season by simply playing harder. All of them sat on Purdue’s side of the Big Ten tournament bracket, setting up a revenge tour of sorts to the championship game.
The No. 13 Boilermakers dispelled any notion of another letdown against Illinois early in Friday’s 89-58 quarterfinal domination at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Purdue seized control with a 15-0 run in the first half and put away an impressive-in-all-facets victory with a 15-2 run to start the second.