Scoring difficulties that were at their worst in the first half and continued throughout the lowest-scoring basketball game that Northwestern has participated in this season ended up being the death knell Sunday afternoon, as the Wildcats (4-4, 0-1 Big Ten) fell 58-44 to Purdue (6-3, 1-0) at Mackey Arena in their first conference game of 2019.
Behind 14 points and six rebounds from Pete Nance, who led all scorers along with Sasha Stefanovic, NU hung around for a long time, but eventually the Boilermakers found the shooting they needed to put the ‘Cats away.