No. 4 Purdue beats Minnesota for 4th straight victory

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Jaden Ivey scored 21 points and Zach Edey added a double-double of 14 points and 12 rebounds, leading No. 4 Purdue to an 88-73 win over Minnesota on Wednesday night.

Senior guard Eric Hunter Jr. added a career-high 20 points and the Boilermakers got double-figure scoring from four players. Hunter entered the contest averaging 4.3 points.

Purdue (19-3, 8-3 Big Ten) has won four straight and seven of its last eight games.

While the Boilermakers excelled near the rim, scoring 40 points in the paint, Purdue also hit 12 of 24 shots from 3-point range in handling the Gophers.

"Like any other game, we're going to try to establish our size," Purdue head coach Matt Painter said. "Just the balance of getting deep post-ups, getting ready to shoot, seeing how they're going to handle those post-ups, and then just executing our sets."

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Purdue guard Eric Hunter Jr., left celebrates with guard Ethan Morton after the team's 88-73 win over Minnesota during an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)

Payton Willis scored 24 points and Jamsion Battle added 21 for Minnesota (11-8, 2-8), which lost its third straight.

Purdue followed up its dramatic last-second win over Ohio State with a comfortable road victory. The Gophers briefly made things interesting in the second half before running out of steam.

Edey scored nine of his points in the first four minutes, and the Boilermakers started 8 of 8 from the floor.

"It really comes from setting the tone right from the beginning on my first shift, just from the tipoff," Edey said. "It creates a gravity almost