Just about tip-off, what was already a highly anticipated match-up between two ranked teams, Purdue became the #4 in the country according to the AP poll and Illinois #17 and the top-20 matchup in Champaigne lived up to all the hype as Purdue bests Illinois on the road, 96-88, in double-overtime.
It was a match-up of some of the best bigs in the country between Illinois’s Kofi Cockburn and Purdue’s two-headed monster, Zach Edey and Trevion Williams, and it was the biggest man making his claim as the best center in the country.
Zach Edey was efficient, dominant, and too big for Cockburn from the tip.