The Iowa Hawkeyes (14-5, 4-4) take on the #6 Purdue Boilermakers (16-3, 5-3) tonight in a pivotal matchup as Iowa looks to stay in the gooey center of the Big Ten conference. The Hawks lost their first outing against Purdue, 77-70, after falling down by as many as 17 points without Keegan Murray. A hectic 14-2 run made it a two-point game down the stretch but they couldn’t climb the mountain and went 0fer in the final two minutes.
Some interesting stats from that first game: Iowa forced Purdue’s second highest turnover rate (22.