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2015 Big Ten/ACC Challenge: Purdue 72, Pittsburgh 59

This is why you don't redshirt Ryan Cline.

Yes, the bigger story was a huge effort of 24 points and 12 rebounds from A.J. Hammons that included two threes and huge play after huge play in the second half, but cline, just a freshman, was a cold-blooded assassin that took full advantage of the attention Hammons got in the post.

Cline was 4 of 4 from long range in the second half, and all four came within a critical stretch from 11:37 to 5:28. For six minutes he told 12,508 people in the Petersen Events Center to shut up.