MINNEAPOLIS — Zach Edey had 29 points and 12 rebounds for third-ranked Purdue, and the Boilermakers recovered from a blown 12-point lead to beat Michigan State 67-62 in a hard-nosed quarterfinal game in the Big Ten Tournament on Friday. The Boilermakers are two wins away from matching Michigan State as the only Big Ten program to win both the outright …
— Zach Edey had 32 points and 11 rebounds, Braden Smith added 23 points and nine boards, and No. 2 Purdue beat Michigan State 80-74 on Saturday night to clinch a share of the Big Ten regular-season championship. They’ve done things the right way.” The last Big Ten team to win back-to-back outright regular-season titles was Ohio State in 2006 …
Michigan State Spartans at Purdue Boilermakers West Lafayette, Indiana; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Boilermakers -9.5; over/under is 144.5 BOTTOM LINE: No. Michigan State is the leader in the Big Ten scoring 15.0 fast break points per game. Michigan State averages 6.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 7.6 per …
— Purdue center Zach Edey donned Sunday’s postgame prizes with pride. “They always play super physical.” Perhaps not surprisingly, the two best games of his career both came against Michigan State over the past two weeks. When Michigan State went on a 7-0 run to close to 53-43, Edey made two layups and four free throws, extending the lead to …