The Big Ten will have at least one team in the Elite Eight. Purdue appeared to be cruising to an easy victory tonight against Tennessee but it was anything but. The Volunteers came back from a big deficit and took the lead late in the game and then the Boilermakers’ Carsen Edwards had to make two free throw at the end to send the game into overtime.
Purdue won the extra stanza and pulled out a 79-94 victory.
Edwards was lights out in the first half and the Boilermakers took a 40-28 lead into the break. They stretched the lead 53-36 with a little after 4 minutes gone in the second half but the Volunteers came storming back.