With Ohio State and Purdue tied 78-all in the final seconds, Jaden Ivey called game with a 3-pointer with a fraction of a second left on the clock.
Despite a spirited run late, upsetting the sixth-ranked team in the country in its own backyard proved too ambitious an assignment for the Buckeyes on Sunday. No. 16 Ohio State dropped its third game of the past seven, and its third in a row at Mackey Arena, as Purdue held on late after going up big early in the second half to notch an 81-78 win in West Lafayette.
Ohio State kept things close early and only trailed by nine points at halftime, but Purdue opened the second half with eight straight points to put the Buckeyes down 17 before three minutes had elapsed in the final frame.