For the second time this season, Ron Harper Jr. hit a very later jumper to defeat a team from the state of Indiana. While the first shot gave Purdue the dubious distinction of being only the fifth team to lose its first game as the AP No. 1, last night’s buzzer beater may have ended Indiana’s tournament hopes. At 18-11 (9-10), the Hoosiers have one more regular season game remaining before the Big Ten Tournament.
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Indiana lost last night in much the same way that it’s lost games over the past four or five years; the offense stalled out completely and the Hoosiers had no answer to a feisty Rutgers team that fought back a few times and refused to die.